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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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Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Oh, yes, the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about -- not matter what twas, rejoined...

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Daisy Ashford: My life will...

Daisy Ashford: My life will...

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Source: The Young Visiters,...

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Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as...

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George Eliot: For what we...

George Eliot: For what we...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -- a willing movement of...

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Lillian Carter: I know folks...

Lillian Carter: I know folks...

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much...

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Lillian Carter: Every time I...

Lillian Carter: Every time I...

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and going to the grave, something else happens.

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Emily Blackwell: Social intercourse --...

Emily Blackwell: Social intercourse --...

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great...

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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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Brigid Brophy: The thriller is...

Brigid Brophy: The thriller is...

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's...

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Mary Renault: How can people...

Mary Renault: How can people...

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Source: The King Must...

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Anais Nin: We do not...

Anais Nin: We do not...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow...

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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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Annie Dillard: No child on...

Annie Dillard: No child on...

No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times...

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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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Jennie Jerome Churchill: He has a...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: He has a...

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Source: Referring to...

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Ruth Benedict: I have always...

Ruth Benedict: I have always...

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Source: In...

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