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Emily Dickinson: Finite to fail,...

Emily Dickinson: Finite to fail,...

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Our journey had advanced;
Our feet were almost come
To that odd fork in Being's road,
Eternity by...

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Emily Dickinson: Remorse --is Memory...

Emily Dickinson: Remorse --is Memory...

Remorse --is Memory --awake --
Her Parties all astir --
A Presence of Departed Acts --
At window --and at...

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Susan RoAne: The time spent...

Susan RoAne: The time spent...

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom...

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Helen Keller: It is not...

Helen Keller: It is not...

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.

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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: He is beyond...

Dorothy Parker: He is beyond...

He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically,...

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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: 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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Agnes Repplier: It is not...

Agnes Repplier: It is not...

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling...

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Fran Lebowitz: Women who insist...

Fran Lebowitz: Women who insist...

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent...

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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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Helen Rowland: Love: woman's eternal...

Helen Rowland: Love: woman's eternal...

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Source:
-- Helen Rowland,...

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Helen Rowland: Wedding: the point...

Helen Rowland: Wedding: the point...

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

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June Jordan: Body and soul,...

June Jordan: Body and soul,...

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity:...

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Shana Alexander: When the prima...

Shana Alexander: When the prima...

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper . . . every other dancer in the company was equally...

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Margaret Bourke-White: Only by his...

Margaret Bourke-White: Only by his...

Only by his action can a man make (himself/his life) whole . . . . You are responsible for what you have done and the...

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Helen Keller: I can see,...

Helen Keller: I can see,...

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made...

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Helen Keller: Unless we form...

Helen Keller: Unless we form...

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its...

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Helen Keller: [Death] is no...

Helen Keller: [Death] is no...

[Death] is no more than passing from one room to another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that...

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