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Emily Dickinson: Dying is a...

Emily Dickinson: Dying is a...

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Emily Dickinson: Truth is so...

Emily Dickinson: Truth is so...

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Grace Metalious: I'm a lousy...

Grace Metalious: I'm a lousy...

I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.

Source: In W.O.W....

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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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Enid Bagnold: The great and...

Enid Bagnold: The great and...

The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris,...

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Hannah Arendt: War has ....

Hannah Arendt: War has ....

War has . . . become a luxury which only the small nations can afford.

Source: In...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of...

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Agatha Christie: The human mind...

Agatha Christie: The human mind...

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will,...

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George Eliot: An egotist is...

George Eliot: An egotist is...

An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.

Source:...

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George Eliot: You have such...

George Eliot: You have such...

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...

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George Eliot: It will never...

George Eliot: It will never...

It will never rain roses; when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Source: In...

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Jane Austen: From politics, it...

Jane Austen: From politics, it...

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Jane Austen: One half the...

Jane Austen: One half the...

One half the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Source: In...

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Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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Hortense Calisher: Every art is...

Hortense Calisher: Every art is...

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling;...

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Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite...

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Dorothy Parker: My verses, I...

Dorothy Parker: My verses, I...

My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own...

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Dorothy Parker: Somebody was using...

Dorothy Parker: Somebody was using...

Somebody was using the pencil.

Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...

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