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Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Nina Simone: It's time to...

Nina Simone: It's time to...

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can...

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Pearl Bailey: We must change...

Pearl Bailey: We must change...

We must change in order to survive.

Source: Hurry Up American and Split,...

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Pearl Bailey: Children, you must...

Pearl Bailey: Children, you must...

Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

Mary Todd Lincoln: My evil genius...

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

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Marianne Moore: A writer is...

Marianne Moore: A writer is...

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Source:...

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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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Pearl Buck: Ah well, perhaps...

Pearl Buck: Ah well, perhaps...

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than...

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E L Konigsburg: Lying in bed...

E L Konigsburg: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Schooling, instead of...

Madeleine L'Engle: Schooling, instead of...

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

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Margaret Halsey: Some persons talk...

Margaret Halsey: Some persons talk...

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

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Elizabeth II: Work is the...

Elizabeth II: Work is the...

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Source: In Quotable...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: Treat your friends...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: Treat your friends...

Treat your friends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.

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Nancy Astor: It isn't the...

Nancy Astor: It isn't the...

It isn't the common man at all who is important; it's the uncommon man.

Source:...

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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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Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you...

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Anzia Yezierska: The real thing...

Anzia Yezierska: The real thing...

The real thing creates its own poetry.

Source: Red Ribbon on a White Horse,...

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George Eliot: Excellence encourages one...

George Eliot: Excellence encourages one...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Life, the permission to know death.

Source: Nightwood/ 1937
-- Djuna Barnes,...

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