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Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Source: The Country of the...

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Joan Baez: Nonviolence is a...

Joan Baez: Nonviolence is a...

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Source: Daybreak
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Edith Evans: A successful artist...

Edith Evans: A successful artist...

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until...

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Mary Robinson: A culture is...

Mary Robinson: A culture is...

A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and...

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Etty Hillesum: Greed probably figures...

Etty Hillesum: Greed probably figures...

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with...

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Fanny Brice: When love is...

Fanny Brice: When love is...

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you...

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Sarah Caldwell: We must continuously...

Sarah Caldwell: We must continuously...

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

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Rita Dove: We tend to...

Rita Dove: We tend to...

We tend to be so bombarded with information. . . This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have...

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Jane Wagner: A sobering thought:...

Jane Wagner: A sobering thought:...

A sobering thought: What if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full...

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Margery Allingham: When the habitually...

Margery Allingham: When the habitually...

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the...

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Maria Callas: An opera begins...

Maria Callas: An opera begins...

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it...

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Rita Dove: Can it be...

Rita Dove: Can it be...

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to...

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Liv Ullmann: I am learning...

Liv Ullmann: I am learning...

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my...

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Mary Antin: A characteristic thing...

Mary Antin: A characteristic thing...

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a...

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Carol Moseley-Braun: I've always maintained...

Carol Moseley-Braun: I've always maintained...

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are...

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Jeanne Moreau: Success is like...

Jeanne Moreau: Success is like...

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story . . . .

Source: In...

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Susan Sontag: All. . ....

Susan Sontag: All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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Mari Evans: I'm<br>gonna spread out<br>over...

Mari Evans: I'm
gonna spread out
over...

I'm
gonna spread out
over America
intrude
my proud blackness
all
over the...

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Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They...

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