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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: The drama of...

Minna Thomas Antrim: The drama of...

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Christina Baldwin: Journal writing is...

Christina Baldwin: Journal writing is...

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Monica Baldwin: The Sussex lanes...

Monica Baldwin: The Sussex lanes...

The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn. . . . spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end . . . earth scents...

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Peggy Noonan: If you join...

Peggy Noonan: If you join...

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: When a woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: When a woman...

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is...

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Peg Bracken: When there's a...

Peg Bracken: When there's a...

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Source: The I Hate to...

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Marie de Sevigne: . . .the...

Marie de Sevigne: . . .the...

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least,...

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Marion Woodman: Moreover, perfectionist standards...

Marion Woodman: Moreover, perfectionist standards...

Moreover, perfectionist standards do not allow for failure. They do not even allow for life, and certainly not...

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Anita Brookner: All good fortune...

Anita Brookner: All good fortune...

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by...

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Rebecca West: Did St Francis...

Rebecca West: Did St Francis...

Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the...

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Rebecca West: [Writing] has nothing...

Rebecca West: [Writing] has nothing...

[Writing] has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different...

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Pearl Buck: Praise out of...

Pearl Buck: Praise out of...

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

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Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Source:...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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Eudora Welty: Long before I...

Eudora Welty: Long before I...

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to...

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Pearl Buck: All things are...

Pearl Buck: All things are...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of...

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Annie Dillard: Spend the afternoon....

Annie Dillard: Spend the afternoon....

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Source: From Charles Daney's...

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Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Let me listen to me and not them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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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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