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Toni Cade Bambara: The dream is...

Toni Cade Bambara: The dream is...

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

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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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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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Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Pearl Buck: Self-expression must pass...

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Source: The...

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Ayn Rand: Creation comes before...

Ayn Rand: Creation comes before...

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

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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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George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

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Rose Tremain: There is something...

Rose Tremain: There is something...

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except...

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Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. . . . She is rather like a cat whose...

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Lucille Clifton: children<br>when they ask...

Lucille Clifton: children
when they ask...

children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don't have no...

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Muriel Rukeyser: Dreams the sources...

Muriel Rukeyser: Dreams the sources...

Dreams the sources of action, the meeting and the end,
a resting-place among the flight of...

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Maureen Duffy: The pain of...

Maureen Duffy: The pain of...

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It's a perpetual wound.

Source:...

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Susan Griffin: Before a secret...

Susan Griffin: Before a secret...

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

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Billie Holiday: Sometimes it's worse...

Billie Holiday: Sometimes it's worse...

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Marie Lloyd: You can't trust...

Marie Lloyd: You can't trust...

You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way...

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Marie Lloyd: My old man...

Marie Lloyd: My old man...

My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!'
But I dillied and dallied, dallied and...

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Marian Anderson: Sometimes you're overwhelmed...

Marian Anderson: Sometimes you're overwhelmed...

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment....

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Grandma Moses: I paint from...

Grandma Moses: I paint from...

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and...

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Elizabeth Arden: Death not merely...

Elizabeth Arden: Death not merely...

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which...

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Yoko Ono: I saw that...

Yoko Ono: I saw that...

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose...

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