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Goldie Hawn: I must say...

Goldie Hawn: I must say...

I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the...

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Joan Crawford: What people want...

Joan Crawford: What people want...

What people want me to be.

Source: When asked, What do YOU want to be?; in American...

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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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Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Source: AQuestion...

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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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Willa Cather: Religion and art...

Willa Cather: Religion and art...

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are...

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Jean Stafford: From time to...

Jean Stafford: From time to...

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

Source: The...

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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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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: The Imagination conjures...

Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...

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Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Mary Stewart: The best way...

Mary Stewart: The best way...

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you...

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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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Margaret Truman: Mother . ....

Margaret Truman: Mother . ....

Mother . . . considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

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Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with...

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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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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Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

Cynthia Ozick: To imagine the...

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

Source: In Words...

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Katherine Anne Porter: One of the...

Katherine Anne Porter: One of the...

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Source: In Words of Women...

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