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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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Anne Rice: To really ask...

Anne Rice: To really ask...

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the...

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Taylor Caldwell: Honest men live...

Taylor Caldwell: Honest men live...

Honest men live on charity in their age; the alm houses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are...

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Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this...

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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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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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Rona Barrett: Pick your enemies...

Rona Barrett: Pick your enemies...

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

Source: In An...

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Fran Lebowitz: To put it...

Fran Lebowitz: To put it...

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to...

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Fanny Burney: . . ....

Fanny Burney: . . ....

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: There is no...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: There is no...

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Brenda Ueland: These people who...

Brenda Ueland: These people who...

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato...

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Julie Burchill: A good part...

Julie Burchill: A good part...

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening...

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Hortense Calisher: The words! I...

Hortense Calisher: The words! I...

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

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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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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: No laborer in...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: No laborer in...

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -- except the...

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Oriana Fallaci: Glory is a...

Oriana Fallaci: Glory is a...

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is...

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Sheila Ballantyne: Some of my...

Sheila Ballantyne: Some of my...

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Source: Norma...

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Elsa Maxwell: The secret of...

Elsa Maxwell: The secret of...

The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.

Source: The...

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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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Rebecca West: Did St Francis...

Rebecca West: Did St Francis...

Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the...

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