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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a...

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Erma Bombeck: I worry about...

Erma Bombeck: I worry about...

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along. . . .

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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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Annie Dillard: I startled a...

Annie Dillard: I startled a...

I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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Mary Steichen Calderone: We are still...

Mary Steichen Calderone: We are still...

We are still a sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons.

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a...

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Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say,...

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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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Cynthia Ozick: In saying what...

Cynthia Ozick: In saying what...

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Source: We...

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Judy Blume: My only advice...

Judy Blume: My only advice...

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.

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Judy Blume: No place has...

Judy Blume: No place has...

No place has delicatessen like New York.

Source: Are You There, God? It's Me,...

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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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Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Source: The Middle Ground,...

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Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Who originated that...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Who originated that...

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

Source:...

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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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Jean Ingelow: You Moon! Have...

Jean Ingelow: You Moon! Have...

You Moon! Have you done something wrong in heaven,
That God has hidden your face?


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Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Source: Dominique, in A...

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