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Susan Sontag: Interpretation is the...

Susan Sontag: Interpretation is the...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Source: Against...

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George Eliot: That's what a...

George Eliot: That's what a...

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he'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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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: Love is like...

Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

Elizabeth Gaskell: The cloud never...

The cloud never comes in the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

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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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Dorothy Parker: Most good women...

Dorothy Parker: Most good women...

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

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Dorothy Parker: If all the...

Dorothy Parker: If all the...

If all the girls attending it were laid end to end - I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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Susan Sontag: The love of...

Susan Sontag: The love of...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...

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Susan Sontag: The becoming of...

Susan Sontag: The becoming of...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Source:...

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Susan Sontag: The writer is...

Susan Sontag: The writer is...

The writer is either a practising recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

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Dorothy Parker: Good work, Mary....

Dorothy Parker: Good work, Mary....

Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Source: Telegram to a friend who...

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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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Susan Sontag: What is most...

Susan Sontag: What is most...

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something...

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Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Fantasies are more...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Fantasies are more...

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed...

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Helen Rowland: Love, the quest;...

Helen Rowland: Love, the quest;...

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Source: Reflections...

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Jane Austen: I have been...

Jane Austen: I have been...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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Jane Austen: If there is...

Jane Austen: If there is...

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.

Source:...

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