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Brenda Ueland: The only good...

Brenda Ueland: The only good...

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or...

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Too many wish...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Too many wish...

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Marilyn French: To nourish children...

Marilyn French: To nourish children...

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or...

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Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at...

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Colette Dowling: Here it was...

Colette Dowling: Here it was...

Here it was -- the Cinderella Complex. It used to hit girls of sixteen or seventeen, preventing them, often, from...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Art is the...

Elizabeth Bowen: Art is the...

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Source:...

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Annie Dillard: There is no...

Annie Dillard: There is no...

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

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Agatha Christie: I like living....

Agatha Christie: I like living....

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...

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Agatha Christie: It is completely...

Agatha Christie: It is completely...

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Source: The Murder...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Source: Aph, 1905.
--...

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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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Anne Rice: The truth is,...

Anne Rice: The truth is,...

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...

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Jean Ingelow: You Moon! Have...

Jean Ingelow: You Moon! Have...

You Moon! Have you done something wrong in heaven,
That God has hidden your face?


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Emmuska Orczy: It is only...

Emmuska Orczy: It is only...

It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water,...

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Margaret Atwood: The Eskimo has...

Margaret Atwood: The Eskimo has...

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for...

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Isak Dinesen: But the trouble...

Isak Dinesen: But the trouble...

But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we...

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Toni Cade Bambara: My mother, religious-negro,...

Toni Cade Bambara: My mother, religious-negro,...

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Old folks are the nation.

Source:
-- Toni Cade Bambara, (Mar 25 1939-1995), US...

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Princess Anne: I know my...

Princess Anne: I know my...

I know my own heart to be entirely English.

Source: Speech on opening parliament,...

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Anais Nin: We don't see...

Anais Nin: We don't see...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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