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#1. Peter Kemp observed that 'Literature owes an enormous debt to Henry James's bowels.' As the correspondence revealed, the young Henry suffered from chronic constipation. To alleviate it his parents dispatched him on a grand tour of Europe (doubtless hoping the foreign food would loosen his entrails).

Anonymous

#2. I ignore the mention of the bitch-troll.

E.L. James

#3. Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

Philip K. Dick

#4. being speared on the end of an umbrella by a bearded giant,

J.K. Rowling

#5. We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.

Jane Porter

#6. To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and you try to bring them to life on the page.

Tom Wolfe

#7. Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Marianne Moore

#8. A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.

Stephen Colbert

#9. Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#10. Why shouldn't a mystical theology be possible? 'I want to touch God or become God,' I declared in my journal. All through that year I abandoned myself intermittently to these deliriums.

Simone De Beauvoir

#11. Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.

Jacques Ellul

#12. I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and have the skills to symbolize visually the four-dimensional structure of the universe.

Wynn Bullock

#13. Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

Donald Miller

#14. The more risks you take, the more rewards you will receive.

Robin S. Sharma