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Emily Dickinson: How dreary to...

Emily Dickinson: How dreary to...

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring...

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Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

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Pearl Buck: In a mood...

Pearl Buck: In a mood...

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a...

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Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace...

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Margaret Halsey: Life itself, however,...

Margaret Halsey: Life itself, however,...

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize...

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Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

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Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

There was never a night that had no morn.

Source: The Golden Gate, Mulock's Poems,...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.


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Susan Warner: Well, we're all...

Susan Warner: Well, we're all...

Well, we're all somebody, of course, in one sense. Of course we're not nobody.''
I am not so sure what you think...

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Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the...

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Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can...

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Marita Bonner: What's the need...

Marita Bonner: What's the need...

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a...

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Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same...

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Lydia M Child: The eye of...

Lydia M Child: The eye of...

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

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Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's...

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Marion Woodman: The connection between...

Marion Woodman: The connection between...

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul...

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Anita Brookner: You have no...

Anita Brookner: You have no...

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how...

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Kate Chopin: The past was...

Kate Chopin: The past was...

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never...

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Eileen Caddy: Stride forward with...

Eileen Caddy: Stride forward with...

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you...

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Marian Wright Edelman: No person has...

Marian Wright Edelman: No person has...

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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