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Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

Agatha Christie: The popular idea...

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of...

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Agatha Christie: Never do anything...

Agatha Christie: Never do anything...

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

Source:
-- Agatha...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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Nora Ephron: We have lived...

Nora Ephron: We have lived...

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Many a truth...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Many a truth...

Many a truth sprang from an error.

Source: Aph, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Conquer but don't...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Conquer but don't...

Conquer but don't triumph.

Source: Aph, 1905.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach,...

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Alice Duer Miller: Love will not...

Alice Duer Miller: Love will not...

Love will not always linger longest
With those who hold it in too clenched a fist.


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Joanna Baillie: Still on it...

Joanna Baillie: Still on it...

Still on it creeps,
Each little moment at another's heels,
Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up
Of...

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Joanna Baillie: How do men...

Joanna Baillie: How do men...

How do men act, when they together stand,
on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreck?
Do they not bravely...

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Adrienne Rich: Pride is a...

Adrienne Rich: Pride is a...

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Source: Blood, Bread and Poetry,...

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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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Beah Richards: Having grown up...

Beah Richards: Having grown up...

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: While Genius was...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: While Genius was...

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: All love that...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: All love that...

All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.


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Julia Roberts: What's nice about...

Julia Roberts: What's nice about...

What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm...

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Jane Seymour: Even though I...

Jane Seymour: Even though I...

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real...

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Hermione Gingold: Really, sex and...

Hermione Gingold: Really, sex and...

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered -- and I still do -- which is more...

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Lily Tomlin: No matter how...

Lily Tomlin: No matter how...

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

Source: In 1,911 Best...

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Gilda Radner: The goal is...

Gilda Radner: The goal is...

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer...

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Raquel Welch: The mind can...

Raquel Welch: The mind can...

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Source: In Colombo's Hollywood, by J.R....

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