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Gertrude Stein: Everybody knows if...

Gertrude Stein: Everybody knows if...

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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Iris Murdoch: A bad review...

Iris Murdoch: A bad review...

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

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Eudora Welty: What I do...

Eudora Welty: What I do...

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...

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Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every...

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Djuna Barnes: To love without...

Djuna Barnes: To love without...

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Source: Nightwood, 1937.
-- Djuna...

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Djuna Barnes: What is a...

Djuna Barnes: What is a...

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Source: Selected Works of Djuna...

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Eva Figes: The much vaunted...

Eva Figes: The much vaunted...

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are...

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Gertrude Stein: I could undertake...

Gertrude Stein: I could undertake...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient...

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Alice James: The success or...

Alice James: The success or...

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right...

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Jamaica Kincaid: In isolation I...

Jamaica Kincaid: In isolation I...

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: Courage, then, for...

Mary Ashton Livermore: Courage, then, for...

Courage, then, for the end draws near! A few more years of persistent, faithful work and the women of the United...

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Renata Adler: The writer has...

Renata Adler: The writer has...

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition,...

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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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Grace Paley: Rosiness is not...

Grace Paley: Rosiness is not...

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Source:...

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Grace Paley: I don't believe...

Grace Paley: I don't believe...

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

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Florence King: We worship education...

Florence King: We worship education...

We worship education but hate learning.

Source:
-- Florence King, (Jan 5...

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Florence King: Familiarity doesn't breed...

Florence King: Familiarity doesn't breed...

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Source:
-- Florence King,...

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Elsa Maxwell: Serve the dinner...

Elsa Maxwell: Serve the dinner...

Serve the dinner backward, do anything but for goodness sake, do something weird.

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Dorothy Parker: I might repeat...

Dorothy Parker: I might repeat...

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn...

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Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it can smooth the edges, take away the...

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