Tuesday, November 12, 2002
�Novels are useful as Bibles, if they teach you the secret, that the best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence.�
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 � 1882), American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, and teacher: �Conduct of Life�, 1860.
�Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.�
- Mary Catherwood (1847 � 1901), American writer; �Marianson�, �Mackinac and Lake Stories�
�Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.�
- Franz Kafka (1883 � 1924), Czech-born German-speaking writer: letter to Milena Jesenk�, 1920.
�Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.�
- Georges Simenon (1903 � 1989), Belgian writer: �Writers at Work�, 1958.
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