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Minna Thomas Antrim: To control a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: To control a...

To control a man a woman must first control herself.

Source: Naked Truth & Veiled...

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Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy....

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Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are...

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Anne Frank: If I read...

Anne Frank: If I read...

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise...

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Susan Sontag: I was not...

Susan Sontag: I was not...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...

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Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals...

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Mary Stewart: I reached for...

Mary Stewart: I reached for...

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful...

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Judith Krantz: I have only...

Judith Krantz: I have only...

I have only one reader -- me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry...

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Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

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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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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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Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Silences have a...

Elizabeth Bowen: Silences have a...

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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Ariel Durant: It is good...

Ariel Durant: It is good...

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on...

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Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

How could Jimmy ever criticize me? l'm his mama.

Source: In The Book of Quotes, by...

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Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously...

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Jane Rule: The real power...

Jane Rule: The real power...

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability...

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Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

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Ivy Baker Priest: The world is...

Ivy Baker Priest: The world is...

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

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Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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