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Gail Godwin: The best antidote...

Gail Godwin: The best antidote...

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward...

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Gayl Jones: I believe that...

Gayl Jones: I believe that...

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can...

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Zelda Fitzgerald: By the time...

Zelda Fitzgerald: By the time...

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long...

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Freda Adler: It is not...

Freda Adler: It is not...

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still...

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Marita Bonner: She did not...

Marita Bonner: She did not...

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if...

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Daphne DuMaurier: People who travel...

Daphne DuMaurier: People who travel...

People who travel are always fugitives.

Source: Frenchman's Creek.
-- Daphne...

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Daphne DuMaurier: Life and death...

Daphne DuMaurier: Life and death...

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Source: My Cousin Rachel, 1952.
--...

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Jean Ingelow: Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!'...

Jean Ingelow: Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!'...

Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!' calling
Ere the early dews were falling.


Source: The High...

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Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Source:
-- Madeleine L'Engle,...

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George Eliot: It is seldom...

George Eliot: It is seldom...

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are...

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Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it...

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Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children,...

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Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to...

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Golda Meir: At work, you...

Golda Meir: At work, you...

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such...

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Dianne Feinstein: You have to...

Dianne Feinstein: You have to...

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone...

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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: We should take...

Ninon de Lenclos: We should take...

We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by...

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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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Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the...

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