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Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

~Anatole Broyard

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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Topics: Aphorism Attracted Been Conclusions Dazzling Draw Extract First Follies How Learned Life Many Moral Reason Some Think Us

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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

~Elias Canetti

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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

~F. H. Bradley

Topics: Aphorism Blood Cold Dull Experiences Fixed Heart Ink Live Mere Our Turns Write

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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Am Ambition Among Aphorism Book Does Else Eternity Everyone Everyone Else First Forms Germans Master Say Says Sentences Ten Which I Am

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