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• Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

  Rachel Carson
  American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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• Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
  And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
  And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
  Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

  Additional Poems (1937) No. 18, st. 1

  A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

  Marcel Proust
  French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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• The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

  Lewis Mumford
  American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conscience-stricken
• poverty-stricken
• contemplation
• themselves
• understand
• perfection

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