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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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Clementine Paddleford: We all have...

Clementine Paddleford: We all have...

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once...

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Renata Adler: At six one...

Renata Adler: At six one...

At six one morning, Will went out in jeans and frayed sweater to buy a quart of milk. A tourist bus went by. The...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Virtue, like a...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Virtue, like a...

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Source: In And I...

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Harriet Lerner: Anger is a...

Harriet Lerner: Anger is a...

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Source: The Dance of Anger,...

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Dorothy Parker: There is entirely...

Dorothy Parker: There is entirely...

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

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Dorothy Parker: A list of...

Dorothy Parker: A list of...

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is...

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Helen Rowland: It isn't tying...

Helen Rowland: It isn't tying...

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying, it's separating himself from all the...

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Helen Rowland: It is easier...

Helen Rowland: It is easier...

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Will the reader...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Will the reader...

Will the reader turn the page?

Source: Note posted in her study, quoted in MD, Jul...

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Katharine Whitehorn: Have you ever...

Katharine Whitehorn: Have you ever...

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest...

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Elsa Maxwell: Giving parties is...

Elsa Maxwell: Giving parties is...

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

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Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a...

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Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the...

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Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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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: The only failure...

George Eliot: The only failure...

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...

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George Eliot: The finest language...

George Eliot: The finest language...

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Source: In The...

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