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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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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a...

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Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches....

Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches....

Trust your hunches. . . . Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do...

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Enid Bagnold: As for death...

Enid Bagnold: As for death...

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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Elizabeth Gaskell: I'll not listen...

Elizabeth Gaskell: I'll not listen...

I'll not listen to reason. . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

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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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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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Liza Minnelli: In Hollywood now...

Liza Minnelli: In Hollywood now...

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, Did he leave a will? but Did he leave a...

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Josephine Baker: I like Frenchmen...

Josephine Baker: I like Frenchmen...

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

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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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Britney Spears: There's no master...

Britney Spears: There's no master...

There's no master plan! I'm just gonna be me and hope it all works out!

Source:...

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Britney Spears: When you sing...

Britney Spears: When you sing...

When you sing a song with feeling and do your all you connect and that's crucial to me.

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Source: In Paris '90.
-- Cornelia...

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Roseanne Barr: Experts say you...

Roseanne Barr: Experts say you...

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling...

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Diane Ackerman: It began in...

Diane Ackerman: It began in...

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in...

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Gloria Swanson: I think all...

Gloria Swanson: I think all...

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is...

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Billie Holiday: I can't stand...

Billie Holiday: I can't stand...

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you...

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Marian Anderson: I had gone...

Marian Anderson: I had gone...

I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was --...

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Bette Midler: Writing a book...

Bette Midler: Writing a book...

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five...

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