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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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Dorothy Parker: If you want...

Dorothy Parker: If you want...

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: To give without...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: To give without...

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Lost time was...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Lost time was...

Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

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Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

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Susan B Anthony: I can't say...

Susan B Anthony: I can't say...

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the...

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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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Susan Sontag: It is not...

Susan Sontag: It is not...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less...

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Susan Sontag: It's fantastic knowing...

Susan Sontag: It's fantastic knowing...

It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to...

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Susan Sontag: The aim of...

Susan Sontag: The aim of...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more,...

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Susan Sontag: The discovery of...

Susan Sontag: The discovery of...

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

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Susan Sontag: The past itself,...

Susan Sontag: The past itself,...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Reform is born...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Reform is born...

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...

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Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Maya Angelou: Nobody, but nobody...

Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.


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-- Maya Angelou,...

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Susan Sontag: Sadomasochism has always...

Susan Sontag: Sadomasochism has always...

Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience: when sex becomes most purely sexual, that...

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Susan Sontag: The becoming of...

Susan Sontag: The becoming of...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

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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.

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-- Helen Rowland,...

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Helen Rowland: To be happy...

Helen Rowland: To be happy...

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown...

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