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Francoise Sagan: Art must take...

Francoise Sagan: Art must take...

Art must take reality by surprise.

Source: Writers at Work
-- Francoise Sagan,...

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Nella Larsen: If a man...

Nella Larsen: If a man...

If a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it...

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Rumer Godden: The motto was...

Rumer Godden: The motto was...

The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

Source: On a...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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Jane Austen: Next to being...

Jane Austen: Next to being...

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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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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Mary Renault: In hatred as...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...

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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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Barbara De Angelis: Love and kindness...

Barbara De Angelis: Love and kindness...

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they...

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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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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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Adelle Davis: If this country...

Adelle Davis: If this country...

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda...

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Joanna Field: I used to...

Joanna Field: I used to...

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

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Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a...

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Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called...

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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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Toni Cade Bambara: And what is...

Toni Cade Bambara: And what is...

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Source:
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