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Anais Nin: The shell is...

Anais Nin: The shell is...

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it...

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Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality,...

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Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Source: The Life I Really...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tain't worthwhile to...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tain't worthwhile to...

'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Source: The Country of...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...

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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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Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful...

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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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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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Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

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Anne Rice: . . ....

Anne Rice: . . ....

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...

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Lawana Blackwell: Age is no...

Lawana Blackwell: Age is no...

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Source: In Collection of 10,000 Inspirational...

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Lawana Blackwell: Patterning your life...

Lawana Blackwell: Patterning your life...

Patterning your life around other?s opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Source:...

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Francoise Sagan: Life has confirmed...

Francoise Sagan: Life has confirmed...

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all...

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Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...

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M F K Fisher: When a man...

M F K Fisher: When a man...

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels...

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Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...

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Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...

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Muriel Spark: One should only...

Muriel Spark: One should only...

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by...

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