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I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...
Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.
Source: Reed to Kerr as their...
Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage....
Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Source:...
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...
I wanted to be a tragedienne. I only wanted sad parts. When mother read the press notices when I was on the road,...
Those who make some other person their job . . . are dangerous.
Source: In The...
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great...
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do...
Fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived...
If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
Source: The Second...
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you...
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Source: In The Speaker's...
My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only 64. He...
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in...
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is...
It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his...
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human...