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Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Gardening is not a rational act.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986
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Willa Cather: I tell you...

Willa Cather: I tell you...

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

Source: The Song of the Lark,...

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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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Anne Tyler: I didn't really...

Anne Tyler: I didn't really...

I didn't really choose to be a writer; I more or less fell into it.

Source: A...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: Travel is the...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: Travel is the...

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

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Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Toni Cade Bambara: Old folks are...

Old folks are the nation.

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

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Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every...

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Margaret Atwood: . . ....

Margaret Atwood: . . ....

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...

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Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...

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Djuna Barnes: New York is...

Djuna Barnes: New York is...

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical...

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Djuna Barnes: A strong sense...

Djuna Barnes: A strong sense...

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the...

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Janet Frame: For your own...

Janet Frame: For your own...

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: There are words...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: There are words...

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Writing, like dreams,...

Toni Cade Bambara: Writing, like dreams,...

Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...

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Faith Baldwin: You cannot contribute...

Faith Baldwin: You cannot contribute...

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach,...

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Faith Baldwin: Character builds slowly,...

Faith Baldwin: Character builds slowly,...

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. ....

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Emily Bronte: A person who...

Emily Bronte: A person who...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half...

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Madeleine L'Engle: When I am...

Madeleine L'Engle: When I am...

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a...

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