The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

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  If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

• Isaac Bashevis Singer:

  There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasu

• Isaac Bashevis Singer:

  A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

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• Hugh Kingsmill:

  Friends are God's apology for relations.

• Hugh Kingsmill:

  Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

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  If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: 'Whenever you feel an imp

• Arthur Quiller-Couch:

  By all means, let us study the great writers of the past for their own sakes, but let us study them

• Arthur Quiller-Couch:

  Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and s

• Arthur Quiller-Couch:

  Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Ca