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Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...

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Emily Dickinson: I argue thee...

Emily Dickinson: I argue thee...

I argue thee that love is life
And life hath immortality.


Source: In Words of...

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Emily Dickinson: I dwell in...

Emily Dickinson: I dwell in...

I dwell in Possibility --
A fairer House than Prose --
More numerous of Windows --
Superior --for Doors...

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Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...

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Tallulah Bankhead: The less I...

Tallulah Bankhead: The less I...

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning...

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Margot Fonteyn: Life forms illogical...

Margot Fonteyn: Life forms illogical...

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who...

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Nadia Boulanger: Life is denied...

Nadia Boulanger: Life is denied...

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a...

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Grace Hansen: A wedding is...

Grace Hansen: A wedding is...

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

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Ethel Barrymore: That's all there...

Ethel Barrymore: That's all there...

That's all there is, there isn't any more.

Source: Curtain call, 1904.
-- Ethel...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One can never...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One can never...

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life . . .

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: In writing biography,...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: In writing biography,...

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fiction parts should be printed in red...

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Katharine Whitehorn: Any committee that...

Katharine Whitehorn: Any committee that...

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second...

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Helen Keller: I sometimes wonder...

Helen Keller: I sometimes wonder...

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the...

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Helen Keller: Resolve to keep...

Helen Keller: Resolve to keep...

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy shall form an invincible host against difficulty.

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Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.


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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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Barbara Smith: Black women as...

Barbara Smith: Black women as...

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Source: In...

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Judith Crist: Movies suddenly became...

Judith Crist: Movies suddenly became...

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic. . .

Source:...

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Maya Angelou: For Africa to...

Maya Angelou: For Africa to...

For Africa to me. . . is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going...

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Susan Sontag: Science fiction films...

Susan Sontag: Science fiction films...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of...

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