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Goldie Hawn: I must say...

Goldie Hawn: I must say...

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the...

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Shirley MacLaine: The if the...

Shirley MacLaine: The if the...

The if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it...

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Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

Stevie Smith: I'm sorry to...

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer,
And as she dreams she gets paler and leaner.
Then be off to your...

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Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Eliza Cook: Better build schoolrooms...

Better build schoolrooms for the boy,
Than cells and gibbets for the man.


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Emily Carr: You always feel...

Emily Carr: You always feel...

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go...

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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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Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Source: The Life I Really...

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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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Barbara Mikulski: As we move...

Barbara Mikulski: As we move...

As we move from an economy of affluence to an economy of scarcity, we must be careful that the people who make $5,000...

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George Eliot: And when a...

George Eliot: And when a...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...

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E L Konigsburg: Often the search...

E L Konigsburg: Often the search...

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Source: The Mixed-Up Files...

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Margaret Atwood: The truly fearless...

Margaret Atwood: The truly fearless...

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg,...

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Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential...

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Alexandra Ripley: Books have become...

Alexandra Ripley: Books have become...

Books have become products like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Source: In...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Source: Pilgrimage, Vol. 11, Ch....

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Susan Warner: . . ....

Susan Warner: . . ....

. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...

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Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education the...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Suicidal glory is...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Suicidal glory is...

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to...

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Helen Gurley Brown: Never fail to...

Helen Gurley Brown: Never fail to...

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

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