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Sara Teasdale: When I can...

Sara Teasdale: When I can...

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And...

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Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

Charlotte Bronte: The writer who...

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time...

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Vita Sackville-West: [The writer] catches...

Vita Sackville-West: [The writer] catches...

[The writer] catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of...

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Anne Bronte: I would not...

Anne Bronte: I would not...

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...

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Katherine Anne Porter: You have to...

Katherine Anne Porter: You have to...

You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have...

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Anne Tyler: My family can...

Anne Tyler: My family can...

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

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Angela Carter: There are lots...

Angela Carter: There are lots...

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose...

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Gayl Jones: I learned to...

Gayl Jones: I learned to...

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard...

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Barbara De Angelis: The real act...

Barbara De Angelis: The real act...

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make...

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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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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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Maxine Hong Kingston: Before we can...

Maxine Hong Kingston: Before we can...

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

Source: In The Amazon of...

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Mary McCarthy: It has to...

Mary McCarthy: It has to...

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of...

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Helene Deutsch: It is no...

Helene Deutsch: It is no...

It is no exaggeration to say that among all living creatures, only man, because of his prehensile appendages, is...

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Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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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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Pearl Buck: No one really...

Pearl Buck: No one really...

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either,...

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Jessamyn West: If you want...

Jessamyn West: If you want...

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Source: In The...

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E L Konigsburg: Often the search...

E L Konigsburg: Often the search...

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Source: The Mixed-Up Files...

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