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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writing, I think,...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writing, I think,...

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything...

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Mary Wilson Little: He who devotes...

Mary Wilson Little: He who devotes...

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at...

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Mary Wilson Little: Politeness is only...

Mary Wilson Little: Politeness is only...

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

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Gretel Ehrlich: Honesty is stronger...

Gretel Ehrlich: Honesty is stronger...

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often hides.

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Julie Burchill: It has been...

Julie Burchill: It has been...

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out...

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Gail Hamilton: The total depravity...

Gail Hamilton: The total depravity...

The total depravity of inanimate things.

Source: Epigram
-- Gail Hamilton, ( ...

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Kathryn Hulme: It is not...

Kathryn Hulme: It is not...

It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature. Poverty,...

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Barbara Sher: You don't have...

Barbara Sher: You don't have...

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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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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Barbara Sher: The amount of...

Barbara Sher: The amount of...

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Source:...

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Amelia Barr: This world is...

Amelia Barr: This world is...

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In...

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Peace Pilgrim: We are all...

Peace Pilgrim: We are all...

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Helen Keller: Knowledge is happiness,...

Helen Keller: Knowledge is happiness,...

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge --broad, deep knowledge --is to know true ends from false, and lofty...

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Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult...

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Simone de Beauvoir: On the day...

Simone de Beauvoir: On the day...

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but...

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Katharine Whitehorn: Why are the...

Katharine Whitehorn: Why are the...

Why are the umpires, the only two people on the field who aren't going to get grass stains on their knees, the only...

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Elsa Maxwell: The cocktail party...

Elsa Maxwell: The cocktail party...

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil.

Source: In An...

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Shana Alexander: The law changes...

Shana Alexander: The law changes...

The law changes and flows like water, and ... the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: I am playing...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: I am playing...

I am playing with myself,
I am playing with the world's soul,
I am the dialogue between myself and el espiritu...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Source: In...

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