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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you let...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you let...

If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more...

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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 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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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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George Eliot: The desire to...

George Eliot: The desire to...

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....

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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: In spite of...

George Eliot: In spite of...

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and...

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George Eliot: Ignorance. . ....

George Eliot: Ignorance. . ....

Ignorance. . . is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with...

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George Eliot: Hatred is like...

George Eliot: Hatred is like...

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Eliot: People who can't...

George Eliot: People who can't...

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: It is happy...

Jane Austen: It is happy...

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing...

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Jane Austen: One half the...

Jane Austen: One half the...

One half the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: It is possible...

George Eliot: It is possible...

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the...

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P D James: It was not...

P D James: It was not...

It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a...

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Edith Wharton: In any really...

Edith Wharton: In any really...

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

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Toni Cade Bambara: [W]e have not...

Toni Cade Bambara: [W]e have not...

[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.

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Rita Mae Brown: Education is a...

Rita Mae Brown: Education is a...

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

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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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