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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: I am convinced...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: I am convinced...

I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

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Edith Wharton: I have never...

Edith Wharton: I have never...

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political...

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Ouida: Indifference is the...

Ouida: Indifference is the...

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos,...

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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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Eleanor Roosevelt: I could not,...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I could not,...

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived...

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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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Judith Guest: And if you...

Judith Guest: And if you...

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...

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Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...

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Francoise Sagan: One can never...

Francoise Sagan: One can never...

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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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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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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Barbara De Angelis: Marriage is not...

Barbara De Angelis: Marriage is not...

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your...

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Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the...

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Elinor Glyn: He had that...

Elinor Glyn: He had that...

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called It.''

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Ursula Le Guin: He arrived at...

Ursula Le Guin: He arrived at...

He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of...

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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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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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Mary Webb: It made me...

Mary Webb: It made me...

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

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