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Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved --
The Site --of it --by Architect
Could not again...

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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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Judith Jamison: People come to...

Judith Jamison: People come to...

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Source: in WomenSports...

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Shirley Temple Black: No country has...

Shirley Temple Black: No country has...

No country has washed more dirty laundry in public than we have.

Source: In...

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Katharine Hepburn: The average Hollywood...

Katharine Hepburn: The average Hollywood...

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an...

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Shirley Temple Black: Won't the new...

Shirley Temple Black: Won't the new...

Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many...

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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: To live is...

Emily Dickinson: To live is...

To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.

Source: In...

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Alice Meynell: Recurrence is sure....

Alice Meynell: Recurrence is sure....

Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again...

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Ma Rainey: White folks hear...

Ma Rainey: White folks hear...

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

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Joan Didion: You have to...

Joan Didion: You have to...

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

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Shana Alexander: The mark of...

Shana Alexander: The mark of...

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons...

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Katherine F Gerould: Simplicity is an...

Katherine F Gerould: Simplicity is an...

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

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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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Fran Lebowitz: The best fame...

Fran Lebowitz: The best fame...

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you...

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Erma Bombeck: There is a...

Erma Bombeck: There is a...

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. And how do you know...

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Jill Johnston: . ....

Jill Johnston: . ....

. . . we as womenfolk can't, as i see it, be all that smug and satisfied about where we're at anyhow until the...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Young people have...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Young people have...

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage....

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Helen Keller: Everything has it...

Helen Keller: Everything has it...

Everything has it wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be...

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Helen Keller: Museums and art...

Helen Keller: Museums and art...

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the...

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