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Marie de Sevigne: True friendship is...

Marie de Sevigne: True friendship is...

True friendship is never serene.

Source: 10 Sep 1671, Letters of Madame de Sevigne...

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Agnes Repplier: Like simplicity and...

Agnes Repplier: Like simplicity and...

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face,...

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Ellen Goodman: Values are not...

Ellen Goodman: Values are not...

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Source: In Reader's...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: God made man,...

Adela Rogers St Johns: God made man,...

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

Source:...

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Erma Bombeck: Good kids are...

Erma Bombeck: Good kids are...

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how...

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Erma Bombeck: I've been on...

Erma Bombeck: I've been on...

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. BY all accounts, I should be...

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Harper Lee: You're not gonna...

Harper Lee: You're not gonna...

You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't...

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Jane Rule: I had never...

Jane Rule: I had never...

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...

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Jane Rule: My private measure...

Jane Rule: My private measure...

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To...

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Gloria Naylor: Spoiled. That's all...

Gloria Naylor: Spoiled. That's all...

Spoiled. That's all it's about -- can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you...

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Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Autumn arrives in...

Elizabeth Bowen: Autumn arrives in...

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

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Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are...

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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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Gertrude Stein: Oh, I wish...

Gertrude Stein: Oh, I wish...

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Source: Quoted by...

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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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Maria Edgeworth: An orator is...

Maria Edgeworth: An orator is...

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact . . .

Source: Harrington, ch....

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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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Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

I'm tired of saying, How wonderful you are! to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of...

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Annie Dillard: You can't test...

Annie Dillard: You can't test...

You can't test courage cautiously.

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...

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