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P D James: Jealousy, he thought,...

P D James: Jealousy, he thought,...

Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness...

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Ouida: The longest absence...

Ouida: The longest absence...

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant...

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Susan Sontag: Detachment is the...

Susan Sontag: Detachment is the...

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat...

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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: Left-wing movements have...

Susan Sontag: Left-wing movements have...

Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical...

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Susan Sontag: Using a camera...

Susan Sontag: Using a camera...

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and...

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Susan Sontag: With the modern...

Susan Sontag: With the modern...

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is...

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of...

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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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Susan B Anthony: The only question...

Susan B Anthony: The only question...

The only question left to be settled now is: are women persons?

Source:
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Simone de Beauvoir: A man would...

Simone de Beauvoir: A man would...

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human...

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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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Helen Keller: The welfare of...

Helen Keller: The welfare of...

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...

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Susan Sontag: In the final...

Susan Sontag: In the final...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized...

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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

Emily Dickinson: I took one...

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they...

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Letitia Landon: Ah tell me...

Letitia Landon: Ah tell me...

Ah tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o'er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers
Save that they...

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Betty Carter: This is our...

Betty Carter: This is our...

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something....

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Katharine Hepburn: I don't care...

Katharine Hepburn: I don't care...

I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.

Source: In An...

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Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and...

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