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Dorothy Parker: There's a helluva...

Dorothy Parker: There's a helluva...

There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with...

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Dorothy Parker: Well, there are...

Dorothy Parker: Well, there are...

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan...

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Helen Keller: My darkness has...

Helen Keller: My darkness has...

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and...

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Helen Keller: Science may have...

Helen Keller: Science may have...

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of...

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Dorothy Parker: Tonstant Weader Wowed...

Dorothy Parker: Tonstant Weader Wowed...

Tonstant Weader Wowed up.

Source: ''Constant Reader review of The Flouse at PooF...

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Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...

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Dorothy Parker: The best way...

Dorothy Parker: The best way...

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the...

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Dorothy Parker: It's like meeting...

Dorothy Parker: It's like meeting...

It's like meeting God without dying.

Source: Of Orson Welles.
-- Dorothy Parker,...

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Susan Sontag: In most modern...

Susan Sontag: In most modern...

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...

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Susan Sontag: In good films,...

Susan Sontag: In good films,...

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to...

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Susan Sontag: It is not...

Susan Sontag: It is not...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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Susan Sontag: The fact that...

Susan Sontag: The fact that...

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's...

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Helen Rowland: To a woman...

Helen Rowland: To a woman...

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown...

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Naomi Mitchison: Keep it light...

Naomi Mitchison: Keep it light...

Keep it light so you can say a lot more, especially if it's something you care about.

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Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...

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George Eliot: But the mother's...

George Eliot: But the mother's...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love,...

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Estelle Ramey: Anyone seeing women...

Estelle Ramey: Anyone seeing women...

Anyone seeing women at a bargain-basement sale where aggression is viewed as appropriate, even endearing, sees...

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George Eliot: Only those who...

George Eliot: Only those who...

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene...

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George Eliot: There are some...

George Eliot: There are some...

There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them...

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