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George Eliot: When we get...

George Eliot: When we get...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and...

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Nora Ephron: When you have...

Nora Ephron: When you have...

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different...

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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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Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

The cloud never comes in the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

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Janet Frame: Writing a novel...

Janet Frame: Writing a novel...

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and...

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George Eliot: Any coward can...

George Eliot: Any coward can...

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...

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Jane Austen: For what do...

Jane Austen: For what do...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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Enid Bagnold: When a man...

Enid Bagnold: When a man...

When a man goes through six years' training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too...

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George Eliot: Perspective, as its...

George Eliot: Perspective, as its...

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish,...

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George Eliot: A supreme love,...

George Eliot: A supreme love,...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the...

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George Eliot: Our virtues are...

George Eliot: Our virtues are...

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound...

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George Eliot: Animals are such...

George Eliot: Animals are such...

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

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Pearl Buck: The young do...

Pearl Buck: The young do...

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after...

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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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Faith Baldwin: One of the...

Faith Baldwin: One of the...

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to...

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Carson McCullers: The mind is...

Carson McCullers: The mind is...

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the...

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Ruth Benedict: I long to...

Ruth Benedict: I long to...

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong...

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Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...

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Dorothy Parker: This play John...

Dorothy Parker: This play John...

This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening...

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Irene Thomas: Protestant women may...

Irene Thomas: Protestant women may...

Protestant women may take the Pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking the Tablet.

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