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Beatrix Potter: Don't go into...

Beatrix Potter: Don't go into...

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs....

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Erica Jong: Your morals are...

Erica Jong: Your morals are...

Your morals are like roads through the Alps. They make these hairpin turns all the time.

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Margery Allingham: I am one...

Margery Allingham: I am one...

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs...

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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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Harper Lee: I do much...

Harper Lee: I do much...

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking...

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Margaret Walker: My grandmothers are...

Margaret Walker: My grandmothers are...

My grandmothers are full of memories
Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay
With veins rolling roughly over...

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George Sand: Try to keep...

George Sand: Try to keep...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life...

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Barbara De Angelis: Love's greatest gift...

Barbara De Angelis: Love's greatest gift...

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Source:...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your...

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Iris Murdoch: We live in...

Iris Murdoch: We live in...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find...

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Alice Walker: Listen, God love...

Alice Walker: Listen, God love...

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration...

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Alice Walker: God is inside...

Alice Walker: God is inside...

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Believe only half...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Believe only half...

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Source: In Words of...

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Golda Meir: I must govern...

Golda Meir: I must govern...

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Source: In L'Europeo by Oriana...

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Ann Richards: Poor George [Bush],...

Ann Richards: Poor George [Bush],...

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

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Ninon de Lenclos: Love never dies...

Ninon de Lenclos: Love never dies...

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

Source: L'Esprit des...

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Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: The great God...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: The great God...

The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect and they move the earth. To some He allots...

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Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that -- they have...

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