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Agatha Christie: I like living....

Agatha Christie: I like living....

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I...

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Nora Ephron: I always read...

Nora Ephron: I always read...

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...

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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Let's face it...

Elizabeth Bowen: Let's face it...

Let's face it -- who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...

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Gertrude Stein: I want to...

Gertrude Stein: I want to...

I want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Source:...

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Rachel Field: I used to...

Rachel Field: I used to...

I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: There is probably...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: There is probably...

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

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Anais Nin: There are very...

Anais Nin: There are very...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them...

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M F K Fisher: Probably one of...

M F K Fisher: Probably one of...

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

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Clara Barton: I may be...

Clara Barton: I may be...

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed...

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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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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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Francoise Sagan: It seems to...

Francoise Sagan: It seems to...

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front...

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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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Anita Loos: Show business is...

Anita Loos: Show business is...

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Source: Kiss Hollywood...

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Angela Carter: Reading a book...

Angela Carter: Reading a book...

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. . . . You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience...

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Isak Dinesen: Who tells a...

Isak Dinesen: Who tells a...

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Toni Cade Bambara: Writing, like dreams,...

Toni Cade Bambara: Writing, like dreams,...

Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and...

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Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a...

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