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Elizabeth Gaskell: How easy it...

Elizabeth Gaskell: How easy it...

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

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Carson McCullers: I live with...

Carson McCullers: I live with...

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

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Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Gertrude Stein: If you are...

Gertrude Stein: If you are...

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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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: Where large sums...

Agatha Christie: Where large sums...

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Source:...

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Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that...

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Alexandra Ripley: Books have become...

Alexandra Ripley: Books have become...

Books have become products like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Source: In...

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Fay Weldon: You end up...

Fay Weldon: You end up...

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you...

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Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

Anzia Yezierska: When I only...

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high...

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Anzia Yezierska: Like all people...

Anzia Yezierska: Like all people...

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Source: The Miracle.
--...

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Susan Warner: He who serves...

Susan Warner: He who serves...

He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Source: Black...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength,...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength,...

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You...

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Barbara Mikulski: As we move...

Barbara Mikulski: As we move...

As we move from an economy of affluence to an economy of scarcity, we must be careful that the people who make $5,000...

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Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes,...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...

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