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Fran Lebowitz: Large, naked, raw...

Fran Lebowitz: Large, naked, raw...

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting...

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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: The problems of...

Susan Sontag: The problems of...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

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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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Dorothy Uhnak: He maintained that...

Dorothy Uhnak: He maintained that...

He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with...

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Helen Rowland: The feminine vanity...

Helen Rowland: The feminine vanity...

The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions.

Source: In Webster's...

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Helen Rowland: Telling lies is...

Helen Rowland: Telling lies is...

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married...

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Helen Rowland: When a girl...

Helen Rowland: When a girl...

When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

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Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

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Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...

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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: It's like meeting...

Dorothy Parker: It's like meeting...

It's like meeting God without dying.

Source: Of Orson Welles.
-- Dorothy Parker,...

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Emily Dickinson: Prayer is the...

Emily Dickinson: Prayer is the...

Prayer is the little implement
Through which men reach
Where presence - is denied...

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Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Source: Letter, 1878; in Letters of Emily...

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Shirley MacLaine: I am an...

Shirley MacLaine: I am an...

I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I...

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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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Cher: If you really...

Cher: If you really...

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.

Source: In...

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Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Source: Attributed last words; in A Certain World,...

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Katharine Hepburn: I don't care...

Katharine Hepburn: I don't care...

I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.

Source: In An...

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