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Belle Livingstone: That winter two...

Belle Livingstone: That winter two...

That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more...

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Dorothea Brande: Fiction supplies the...

Dorothea Brande: Fiction supplies the...

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material...

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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: It may be...

Jane Austen: It may be...

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many...

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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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Joyce Brothers: An individual's self-concept...

Joyce Brothers: An individual's self-concept...

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to...

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Lisa Alther: Any mother could...

Lisa Alther: Any mother could...

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

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Louisa May Alcott: Far away there...

Louisa May Alcott: Far away there...

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their...

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Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.


Source: Expect Nothing, Revolutionary...

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Sylvia Plath: Nothing stinks like...

Sylvia Plath: Nothing stinks like...

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Source: In The Fourth 637 Best...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Source:...

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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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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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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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Joyce Carol Oates: She ransacked her...

Joyce Carol Oates: She ransacked her...

She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it.

Source: Them, pt. 1 ch. 15,...

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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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Ayn Rand: The hardest thing...

Ayn Rand: The hardest thing...

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to...

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Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains...

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Ethel Barrymore: The people are...

Ethel Barrymore: The people are...

The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything....

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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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