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Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

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Margaret Atwood: Never pray for...

Margaret Atwood: Never pray for...

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Brigid Brophy: Whenever people say...

Brigid Brophy: Whenever people say...

Whenever people say we mustn't be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And, if they add,...

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George Eliot: When one wanted...

George Eliot: When one wanted...

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest,...

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George Eliot: Every woman is...

George Eliot: Every woman is...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . .

Source: Defending Peyton Place, NY Mirror, 6...

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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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Gracie Allen: All the other...

Gracie Allen: All the other...

All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I'm the foe...

Tallulah Bankhead: I'm the foe...

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-heard whose identity is lost in the...

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Maya Angelou: Education helps one...

Maya Angelou: Education helps one...

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Source: In...

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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: Religion is probably,...

Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing...

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Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...

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Julie Burchill: Writing is more...

Julie Burchill: Writing is more...

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful...

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Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

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Dorothy Parker: Sorrow is tranquillity...

Dorothy Parker: Sorrow is tranquillity...

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

Source: Sentiment.
-- Dorothy...

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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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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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Maya Angelou: Nature has no...

Maya Angelou: Nature has no...

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, 'I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I...

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Susan Sontag: In America, the...

Susan Sontag: In America, the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents...

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