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Bernice Johnson Reagon: The voice I...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: The voice I...

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . . . and I'd never...

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Patti Smith: Those who have...

Patti Smith: Those who have...

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

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Annie Dillard: I am a...

Annie Dillard: I am a...

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my...

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Gertrude Stein: What is the...

Gertrude Stein: What is the...

What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?

Source: Her...

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Agatha Christie: I like living....

Agatha Christie: I like living....

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...

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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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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Source: Aph, 1905.
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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Time . . . is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And...

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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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Emily Bronte: Any relic of...

Emily Bronte: Any relic of...

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Source: Ellen Dean,...

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Elizabeth Dole: What you always...

Elizabeth Dole: What you always...

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to...

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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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M F K Fisher: Dictionaries are always...

M F K Fisher: Dictionaries are always...

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Source: Dubious Honors,...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I asked [my...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I asked [my...

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and...

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Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely...

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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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Willa Cather: What was any...

Willa Cather: What was any...

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element...

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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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