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Daisy Ashford: I am parshial...

Daisy Ashford: I am parshial...

I am parshial [sic] to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would...

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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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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into...

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Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,...

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Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death.

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Pearl Buck: The secret of...

Pearl Buck: The secret of...

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy...

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Annie Dillard: The secret of...

Annie Dillard: The secret of...

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted,...

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Lisa Alther: I happen to...

Lisa Alther: I happen to...

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting...

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Beatrice Hinkle: When one looks...

Beatrice Hinkle: When one looks...

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial...

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Karen Horney: The perfect normal...

Karen Horney: The perfect normal...

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: I did not...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: I did not...

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Source: Referring to...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...

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Jane Austen: How can you...

Jane Austen: How can you...

How can you contrive to write so even?

Source: (Miss Bingley) Pride and Prejudice,...

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Mary McCarthy: Understanding is often...

Mary McCarthy: Understanding is often...

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot...

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Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Source: National Velvet/...

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Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.


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Jean Stafford: . . ....

Jean Stafford: . . ....

. . . as she moved from table to table, endeavoring to understand the [gambling] games, she realized that either her...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: The great law...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: The great law...

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an...

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