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Susan Sontag: Taste has no...

Susan Sontag: Taste has no...

Taste has no system and no proofs.

Source: Against Interpretation, 1961.
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Simone de Beauvoir: Live with no...

Simone de Beauvoir: Live with no...

Live with no time out.

Source: All Said and Done, 1974.
-- Simone de Beauvoir,...

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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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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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Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of...

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Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

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Jane Austen: An egg boiled...

Jane Austen: An egg boiled...

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

Source: (Mr Woodhouse) Emma, Ch....

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Jane Austen: Let other pens...

Jane Austen: Let other pens...

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Source: Mansfield Park, Ch. 48
-- Jane...

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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: It was not...

Jane Austen: It was not...

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to...

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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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Harriet Beecher Stowe: In all ranks...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: In all ranks...

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: No one is...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: No one is...

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Source: Uncle Tom's...

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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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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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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: My only sketch,...

Emily Dickinson: My only sketch,...

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June -- and in it...

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Beah Richards: Race, what is...

Beah Richards: Race, what is...

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . .Blood doesn't run in races! ...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Simone de Beauvoir: One's life has...

Simone de Beauvoir: One's life has...

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation...

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