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| The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. | Thomas Wolfe | 1931-, American Author, Journalist |
| Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. | Thornton Wilder | 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright |
| Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. | Thornton Wilder | 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright |
| Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes. | Tom Cruise | 1962-, American Actor |
| Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. | Tony Buzan | British Peak Performance Expert, Trainer, Author, Creator of ''Mind Mapping'' |
| The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey. | Traditional Saying | |
| The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. | Tristan Tzara | 1896-1963, Rumanian-born French Dadaist |
| All literature is gossip. | Truman Capote | 1942-, American Author |
| Patience is the key to paradise. | Turkish Proverb | Sayings of Turkish Origin |
| He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929-, American Author |
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| There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. | Vaclav Havel | 1936-, Czech Playwright, President |
| I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. | Vaclav Havel | 1936-, Czech Playwright, President |
| The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. | Vaclav Havel | 1936-, Czech Playwright, President |
| A library implies an act of faith. | Victor Hugo | 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable. | Virgil | c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet |
| Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -- not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favours his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
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| A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. | Virginia Woolf | 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist |
| Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. | Vissarion Belinsky | |
| When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader |
| Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader |
| Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat. | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader |
| It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| A witty saying proves nothing. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
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| In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. | W. B. Prescott | |
| There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. | W. E. B. Du Bois | Civil Rights Activist |
| Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. | W. Edwards Deming | 1900-1993, American Management Consultant Who Helped Turn Japan's Economy Around |
| A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. | W. H. Auden | 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet |
| Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. | W. H. Auden | 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet |
| To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife. | W. H. Auden | 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet |
| Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. | W. H. Auden | 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet |
| Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom. | W. M. L. Jay | |
| I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. | W. Somerset Maugham | 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright |
| Poetry is the language of feeling. | W. Winter | |
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| If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. | W. Winwood Reade | 1838-1875, American Writer |
| As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. | Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955, American Poet |
| Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. | Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955, American Poet |
| How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? | Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955, American Poet |
| The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man. | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| What is reading, but silent conversation. | Walter Savage Landor | 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist |
| We talk on principal, but act on motivation. | Walter Savage Landor | 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist |
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