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Nadine Gordimer: Censorship is never...

Nadine Gordimer: Censorship is never...

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the...

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Judith Guest: People who keep...

Judith Guest: People who keep...

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

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Jean Rhys: She could give...

Jean Rhys: She could give...

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. But...

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Anna Sewell: I am never...

Anna Sewell: I am never...

I am never afraid of what I know.

Source: Black Beauty, 1877.
-- Anna Sewell,...

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Mary Stewart: But I have...

Mary Stewart: But I have...

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they fear even the slightest and least likely threat...

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Judith Guest: He had led...

Judith Guest: He had led...

He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly...

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Grace Metalious: . ....

Grace Metalious: . ....

. . . to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without...

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Judith Rossner: A lie was...

Judith Rossner: A lie was...

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

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Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Source: From...

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Emmuska Orczy: An apology?...

Emmuska Orczy: An apology?...

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might...

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Lisa Alther: If this was...

Lisa Alther: If this was...

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and...

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Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Youth is a mortal wound

Source: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.
-- Katherine Paterson,...

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Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential...

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Janet Frame: Electricity, the peril...

Janet Frame: Electricity, the peril...

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .

Source:...

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Isak Dinesen: All sorrows can...

Isak Dinesen: All sorrows can...

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

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Clara Barton: This conflict is...

Clara Barton: This conflict is...

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young -- young enough to go to the front. If...

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Amie Comeaux: Sometimes in spite...

Amie Comeaux: Sometimes in spite...

Sometimes in spite of difference
Sometimes against all odds
Some things are meant to happen
It's written in...

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Aretha Franklin: If a song's...

Aretha Franklin: If a song's...

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I...

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