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[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becom
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. – James Russell Lowell

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Then your words of abuse today may turn into a universally valid principle of denigration, for words are magical formulae. They leave fingermarks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye becomes the footprints of history. One ought to watch one’s every word. – Franz Kafka, quoted by Gustav Janouch, Conversations with Kafka

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In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. – James Baldwin

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