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- Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
- Frantz Fanon
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
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