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Susan Sontag: Ours is a...

Susan Sontag: Ours is a...

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory...

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Susan Sontag: Societies need to...

Susan Sontag: Societies need to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton,...

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Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

Susan Sontag: The only interesting...

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Source: In...

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Judith Martin: Allowing an unimportant...

Judith Martin: Allowing an unimportant...

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always...

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Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Source: In The...

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Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

[T]he man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are...

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Emily Dickinson: Nods from the...

Emily Dickinson: Nods from the...

Nods from the Gilded pointers --
Nods from the Seconds slim --
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life...

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Fannie Hurst: Any writer worth...

Fannie Hurst: Any writer worth...

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another...

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: Look, I don't...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: Look, I don't...

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Source: On NBC TV, 3 Apr 1985.
--...

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Emily Dickinson: This is my...

Emily Dickinson: This is my...

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me--
The simple News that Nature told--
With tender...

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Edith Nesbitt: Time and space...

Edith Nesbitt: Time and space...

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Source: The Story of the Amulet,...

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Barbra Streisand: A human being...

Barbra Streisand: A human being...

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you...

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Alberta Hunter: I've got the...

Alberta Hunter: I've got the...

I've got the world in a jug
The stopper's in my hand.


Source: Down Hearted...

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Gypsy Rose Lee: God will protect...

Gypsy Rose Lee: God will protect...

God will protect us, [my mother] often said to June and me. But to make sure, she would add, carry a heavy...

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Lucille Ball: I think knowing...

Lucille Ball: I think knowing...

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good...

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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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George Eliot: And when a...

George Eliot: And when a...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...

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