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Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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Maxine Hong Kingston: I learned to...

Maxine Hong Kingston: I learned to...

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for...

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Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Of two evils choose the prettier.

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Annie Dillard: No child on...

Annie Dillard: No child on...

No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Johanna Spyri: Anger has overpowered...

Johanna Spyri: Anger has overpowered...

Anger has overpowered him, and driven him to a revenge which was rather a stupid one, I must acknowledge, but anger...

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Shirley Hazzard: Sometimes, surely, truth...

Shirley Hazzard: Sometimes, surely, truth...

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to...

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Bernadette Devlin: To gain that...

Bernadette Devlin: To gain that...

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

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Harper Lee: You never really...

Harper Lee: You never really...

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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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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Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called...

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Joyce Carol Oates: We inhabit ourselves...

Joyce Carol Oates: We inhabit ourselves...

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once...

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Muriel Spark: To me education...

Muriel Spark: To me education...

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...

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Barbara Kingsolver: Memory is a...

Barbara Kingsolver: Memory is a...

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

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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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Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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Barbara De Angelis: We need to...

Barbara De Angelis: We need to...

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover...

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Mary Renault: You can make...

Mary Renault: You can make...

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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