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30 Pieces Of Wisdom From Authors
While authors are often cursed with a myriad of problems (suffering for their art is mostly unavoidable), they're also intimidatingly talented folk, full of creativity and smarts.
This is mainly funnelled into their work but it's also blessed us with a selection of perfectly realised nuggets of life-improving wisdom.
Here are 30 of the very best:
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Aldous Huxley
"An intellectual is a person who's found one thing… More details
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Anne Rice
"Evil is always possible. Goodness is a… More details
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Anthony Burgess
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the… More details
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Bret Easton Ellis
"Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly… More details
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Daphne Du Maurier
"Women want love to be a novel, men a short… More details
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Charles Dickens
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that… More details
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Chuck Palahniuk
"If you love something set it free, but don't be… More details
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Donna Tartt
"I think innocence is something that adults project… More details
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Ernest Hemingway
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That… More details
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams… More details
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Erica Jong
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the… More details
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George Orwell
"Every generation imagines itself to be more… More details
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Ian McEwan
"No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or… More details
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J D Salinger
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." More details
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Jack Kerouac
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield… More details
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John Grisham
"You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly… More details
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Jonathan Franzen
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer… More details
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Kurt Vonnegut
"If people think nature is their friend, then they… More details
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Margaret Atwood
"War is what happens when language fails." More details
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Mario Puzo
"Never hate your enemies. It affects your… More details
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Mark Twain
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience:… More details
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Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." More details
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Paolo Coelho
"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying… More details
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Maya Angelou
"I've learned that people will forget what you said,… More details
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Philip Roth
"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know… More details
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Richard Yates
"Most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein… More details
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Roald Dahl
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the… More details
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Stephen King
"If you liked being a teenager, there's something… More details
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Vladimir Nabokov
"Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest… More details
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William Golding
"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by… More details
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