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Ouida: Indifference is the...

Ouida: Indifference is the...

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos,...

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Jean Stafford: . . ....

Jean Stafford: . . ....

. . . as she moved from table to table, endeavoring to understand the [gambling] games, she realized that either her...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Our lives preserved....

Toni Cade Bambara: Our lives preserved....

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce...

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George Eliot: But what we...

George Eliot: But what we...

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible,...

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Princess Anne: Golf seems to...

Princess Anne: Golf seems to...

Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.

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Ingrid Bergman: A kiss is...

Ingrid Bergman: A kiss is...

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

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Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

Elizabeth Ashley: I see the...

I see the mind of the 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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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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Maya Ying Lin: You really can't...

Maya Ying Lin: You really can't...

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist, I make...

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Mary Kay Ash: A good goal...

Mary Kay Ash: A good goal...

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch.

Source: In Words...

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Katharine Hepburn: Life is to...

Katharine Hepburn: Life is to...

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be...

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Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Source: In What's Whoopi...

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Carol Burnett: Only I can...

Carol Burnett: Only I can...

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Elizabeth Coatsworth: Only of one...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: Only of one...

Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless.


Source:...

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Joanna Baillie: I wish I...

Joanna Baillie: I wish I...

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about...

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Sarah Knowles Bolton: Be glad today,...

Sarah Knowles Bolton: Be glad today,...

Be glad today, tomorrow may bring tears.
Be brave today, the darkest night will pass.
And golden rays will...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us...

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Maureen Duffy: The pain of...

Maureen Duffy: The pain of...

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It's a perpetual wound.

Source:...

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