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Dorothy Parker: I shall stay...

Dorothy Parker: I shall stay...

I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Dorothy Parker: House Beautiful' is...

Dorothy Parker: House Beautiful' is...

'House Beautiful' is the play lousy.

Source: Theater review.
-- Dorothy Parker,...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: You can't make...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: You can't make...

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Source: Referring to Dewey's nomination, in...

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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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Muriel Spark: It is impossible...

Muriel Spark: It is impossible...

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Source: The...

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Ursula Le Guin: The only thing...

Ursula Le Guin: The only thing...

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes...

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Eva Figes: Providing for one's...

Eva Figes: Providing for one's...

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over...

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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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Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if...

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Johanna Spyri: Then at last...

Johanna Spyri: Then at last...

Then at last the grandmother spoke, Heidi, read me one of the hymns! I can feel I can do nothing for the remainder of...

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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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Jane Austen: To sit in...

Jane Austen: To sit in...

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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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: My own experience...

George Eliot: My own experience...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree...

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George Eliot: That's what a...

George Eliot: That's what a...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's...

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George Eliot: Of what use,...

George Eliot: Of what use,...

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need...

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George Eliot: To manage men,...

George Eliot: To manage men,...

To manage men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: We must find...

George Eliot: We must find...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: If there is...

Jane Austen: If there is...

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.

Source:...

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