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Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

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Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations. . . can never effect a...

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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Writing is thinking....

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Writing is thinking....

Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

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Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite...

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Susan Sontag: Fear of sexuality...

Susan Sontag: Fear of sexuality...

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now...

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Susan Sontag: Lying is an...

Susan Sontag: Lying is an...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Susan Sontag: Much of modern...

Susan Sontag: Much of modern...

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we...

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Susan Sontag: War-making is one...

Susan Sontag: War-making is one...

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to...

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Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing...

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Susan Sontag: This city is...

Susan Sontag: This city is...

This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies....

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Every child was...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Every child was...

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew...

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Fran Lebowitz: You can't go...

Fran Lebowitz: You can't go...

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people...

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Erma Bombeck: A child develops...

Erma Bombeck: A child develops...

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the...

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Erma Bombeck: The grass is...

Erma Bombeck: The grass is...

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Source: From Charades, an...

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Helen Keller: I can see,...

Helen Keller: I can see,...

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made...

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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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Molly Haskell: There are very...

Molly Haskell: There are very...

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise...

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Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . .

Source: Defending Peyton Place, NY Mirror, 6...

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Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...

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