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Susan Sontag: I envy paranoids;...

Susan Sontag: I envy paranoids;...

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Source:...

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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: One set of...

Susan Sontag: One set of...

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse...

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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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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's...

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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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Nancy Friday: It was the...

Nancy Friday: It was the...

It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that...

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George Eliot: One must be...

George Eliot: One must be...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...

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George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Source: 'Felix...

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George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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George Eliot: More helpful than...

George Eliot: More helpful than...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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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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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: We met ....

Jane Austen: We met ....

We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...

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Jane Austen: The post-office had...

Jane Austen: The post-office had...

The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think...

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Jane Austen: There is safety...

Jane Austen: There is safety...

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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Annie Dillard: It could be...

Annie Dillard: It could be...

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Where painting is...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Where painting is...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is...

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Gertrude Stein: The contemporary thing...

Gertrude Stein: The contemporary thing...

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that...

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