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Peggy Noonan: I think miracles...

Peggy Noonan: I think miracles...

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we...

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Nancy Friday: The debt of...

Nancy Friday: The debt of...

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill...

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Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...

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Susan Sontag: Authoritarian political ideologies...

Susan Sontag: Authoritarian political ideologies...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by...

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Roseanne Barr: They're all mine....

Roseanne Barr: They're all mine....

They're all mine. . . . Of course, I'd trade any one of them for a dishwasher.

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Gilda Radner: I base most...

Gilda Radner: I base most...

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Source: It's Always...

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Marjorie Main: PA: Ma, there...

Marjorie Main: PA: Ma, there...

PA: Ma, there no need to apology for our kids, all fifteen are chips off the old block.
MA: Any more chips and...

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Dodie Smith: I have found...

Dodie Smith: I have found...

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

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Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Christina Rossetti: Better by far...

Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

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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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Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

Emma Lazarus: His cup is...

His cup is gall, his meat is tears,
His passion lasts a thousand years.


Source:...

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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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Diane Arbus: I always thought...

Diane Arbus: I always thought...

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I...

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Shirley Jones: People want that...

Shirley Jones: People want that...

People want that kind of make-believe. They want entertainment. People love the music in it, they still love to hear...

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Liza Minnelli: There are so...

Liza Minnelli: There are so...

There are so many girls, and so few princes.

Source: On why girls marry badly, in...

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Judy Collins: I don't think...

Judy Collins: I don't think...

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the...

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Aretha Franklin: If a song's...

Aretha Franklin: If a song's...

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I...

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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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