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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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Peace Pilgrim: The simplification of...

Peace Pilgrim: The simplification of...

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and...

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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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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: The welfare of...

Helen Keller: The welfare of...

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Susan Sontag: This city is...

Susan Sontag: This city is...

This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies....

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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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George Eliot: Abroad, that large...

George Eliot: Abroad, that large...

Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.

Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...

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George Eliot: There is nothing...

George Eliot: There is nothing...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but...

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Jane Austen: I am afraid...

Jane Austen: I am afraid...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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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.

Source:...

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Emily Dickinson: Tis sweet to...

Emily Dickinson: Tis sweet to...

Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with Daisies lie --
That Commerce will continue --
And...

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Emily Dickinson: They say God...

Emily Dickinson: They say God...

They say God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

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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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Isadora Duncan: All my life...

Isadora Duncan: All my life...

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Source: In The...

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Beah Richards: Both class and...

Beah Richards: Both class and...

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to...

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Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and...

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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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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: I only want...

Dorothy Parker: I only want...

I only want enough to keep the body and soul apart.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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