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Dorothy Parker: Every year, back...

Dorothy Parker: Every year, back...

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with...

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Christiane Collange: We all have...

Christiane Collange: We all have...

We all have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

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Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the...

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Abigail Van Buren: If we could...

Abigail Van Buren: If we could...

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires.

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Jessica Mitford: Things on the...

Jessica Mitford: Things on the...

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for...

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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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Fran Lebowitz: To me the...

Fran Lebowitz: To me the...

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a...

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Helen Rowland: A husband is...

Helen Rowland: A husband is...

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Source: A...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Source:...

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Virgilia Peterson: There is no...

Virgilia Peterson: There is no...

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

Source: A Matter of Life and Death,...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Memory seldom fails...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Memory seldom fails...

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

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Hannah More: Going to the...

Hannah More: Going to the...

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

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Elizabeth Fishel: Sisters define their...

Elizabeth Fishel: Sisters define their...

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a...

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Gail Hamilton: Every person is...

Gail Hamilton: Every person is...

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell...

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Florence King: There's no national...

Florence King: There's no national...

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the...

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Naomi Wolf: The beauty myth...

Naomi Wolf: The beauty myth...

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the...

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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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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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Tallulah Bankhead: I'm as pure...

Tallulah Bankhead: I'm as pure...

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the Week', 24...

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Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a...

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