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Susan Sontag: It is only...

Susan Sontag: It is only...

It is only the fear of malpractice that keeps doctors candid in this country.

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Susan Sontag: Victims suggest innocence....

Susan Sontag: Victims suggest innocence....

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Beware of people...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Beware of people...

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Source: In Words...

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Mignon McLaughlin: For the happiest...

Mignon McLaughlin: For the happiest...

For the happiest life, days should he rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

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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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Peace Pilgrim: Unnecessary possessions are...

Peace Pilgrim: Unnecessary possessions are...

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great...

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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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Helen Keller: I have often...

Helen Keller: I have often...

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of...

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Dorothy Parker: If I had...

Dorothy Parker: If I had...

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

Source: At age...

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Dorothy Parker: How could they...

Dorothy Parker: How could they...

How could they tell?

Source: On being told of the death of former President Calvin...

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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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George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies...

George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,...

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George Eliot: But human experience...

George Eliot: But human experience...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current...

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Jane Austen: A man ....

Jane Austen: A man ....

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter...

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Emily Dickinson: My friends are...

Emily Dickinson: My friends are...

My friends are my estate.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: I became active...

Helen Gahagan Douglas: I became active...

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which...

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Emily Dickinson: If I can...

Emily Dickinson: If I can...

If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one...

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Emily Dickinson: This is the...

Emily Dickinson: This is the...

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First --Chill...

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Lotte Lehmann: You have always...

Lotte Lehmann: You have always...

You have always given me more than I gave to you. . . . You were the wings on which I...

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Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Fame is a bee
It has a song --
It has a sting --
Ah, too, it has a wing.


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