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Marie Antoinette: Courage! I have...

Marie Antoinette: Courage! I have...

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to...

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Ninon de Lenclos: Words really flattering...

Ninon de Lenclos: Words really flattering...

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us...

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Ninon de Lenclos: It is strange...

Ninon de Lenclos: It is strange...

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is...

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June Singer: The first half...

June Singer: The first half...

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: God, the illogic!...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: God, the illogic!...

God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something...

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Edna O'Brien: In a way...

Edna O'Brien: In a way...

In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Those who make...

Dorothy L Sayers: Those who make...

Those who make some other person their job . . . are dangerous.

Source: In The...

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Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

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Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....

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Shirley Hazzard: Do you ever...

Shirley Hazzard: Do you ever...

Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing...

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Toni Morrison: If there's a...

Toni Morrison: If there's a...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I didn't mean...

Madeleine L'Engle: I didn't mean...

I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers, as written by...

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George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of...

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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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Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes...

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Djuna Barnes: Well, isn't Bohemia...

Djuna Barnes: Well, isn't Bohemia...

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else -- and must not a waiter be a little less than...

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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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Anne Tyler: People always call...

Anne Tyler: People always call...

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Source:...

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Anne Tyler: I'ts true that...

Anne Tyler: I'ts true that...

I'ts true that it [writing] is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of...

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