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Coco Chanel: When I can...

Coco Chanel: When I can...

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

Source: Coco Chanel: Her...

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Grandma Moses: Life is what...

Grandma Moses: Life is what...

Life is what we make it; always has been, always will be.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've...

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Mary Pickford: Make them laugh,...

Mary Pickford: Make them laugh,...

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. . ....

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Mary Pickford: It would have...

Mary Pickford: It would have...

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way...

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Ruth Etting: It pays to...

Ruth Etting: It pays to...

It pays to advertise
That's what they say,
and so I'll advertise my heart.


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Marie Lloyd: A little of...

Marie Lloyd: A little of...

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Source: Song title
-- Marie Lloyd,...

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Ethel Merman: I can hold...

Ethel Merman: I can hold...

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

Source: In Webster's...

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Kathleen Norris: Just the knowledge...

Kathleen Norris: Just the knowledge...

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day...

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Anzia Yezierska: The real thing...

Anzia Yezierska: The real thing...

The real thing creates its own poetry.

Source: Red Ribbon on a White Horse,...

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Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...

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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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Beatrix Potter: I am worn...

Beatrix Potter: I am worn...

I am worn to a raveling.

Source: The Tailor of Gloucester, 1901.
-- Beatrix...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Illusions are art,...

Elizabeth Bowen: Illusions are art,...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

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Annie Dillard: I woke in...

Annie Dillard: I woke in...

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise...

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Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Source: In Webster's...

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Erica Jong: When I was...

Erica Jong: When I was...

When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it...

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Kate Seredy: I make money...

Kate Seredy: I make money...

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty...

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Dorothy Gilman: She felt again...

Dorothy Gilman: She felt again...

She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen...

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