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Vita Sackville-West: Women, like men,...

Vita Sackville-West: Women, like men,...

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of...

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Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it...

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Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

O lord! your wise men are the greatest fools upon earth; they reason about their enjoyments, and analyse their...

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Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

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Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...

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Diane Wakoski: The best young...

Diane Wakoski: The best young...

The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: I don't remember...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: I don't remember...

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the dahling'' thing got started?

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Tallulah Bankhead: I have three...

Tallulah Bankhead: I have three...

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I am as...

Tallulah Bankhead: I am as...

I am as pure as the driven slush.

Source:
-- Tallulah Bankhead, (Jan 31...

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Agnes George DeMille: When you perform...

Agnes George DeMille: When you perform...

When you perform . . . you are out of yourself larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic....

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Amie Comeaux: One step from...

Amie Comeaux: One step from...

One step from a heartache
Two steps from the blues
So close to a teardrop
I know what you were gonna...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Light tomorrow with...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Light tomorrow with...

Light tomorrow with today.

Source: From Kevin Harris' Quotation Collections found...

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Marianne Moore: Impatience is the...

Marianne Moore: Impatience is the...

Impatience is the mark of independence,
not of bondage.


Source: In The Speaker's...

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Adrienne Rich: We might possess...

Adrienne Rich: We might possess...

We might possess every technological resource . . . but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless,...

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Letitia Landon: How disappointment tracks...

Letitia Landon: How disappointment tracks...

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Pearl Bailey: We look into...

Pearl Bailey: We look into...

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on...

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Pearl Bailey: I see their...

Pearl Bailey: I see their...

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. [on...

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