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Fran Lebowitz: Large, naked, raw...

Fran Lebowitz: Large, naked, raw...

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting...

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Erma Bombeck: Next to hot...

Erma Bombeck: Next to hot...

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most...

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Helen Keller: Literature is my...

Helen Keller: Literature is my...

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious...

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Dorothy Parker: Scratch an actor...

Dorothy Parker: Scratch an actor...

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Source: Attributed.
-- Dorothy...

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Dorothy Parker: The doctors were...

Dorothy Parker: The doctors were...

The doctors were very brave about it.

Source: Said after she had been seriously...

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Beah Richards: Both class and...

Beah Richards: Both class and...

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to...

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Katharine Hepburn: Trying to be...

Katharine Hepburn: Trying to be...

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Source: The Dick Cavett...

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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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Tallulah Bankhead: I'm the foe...

Tallulah Bankhead: I'm the foe...

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-heard whose identity is lost in the...

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Shirley Temple Black: Good luck needs...

Shirley Temple Black: Good luck needs...

Good luck needs no explanation.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Emily Dickinson: Parting is all...

Emily Dickinson: Parting is all...

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.


Source: poem no....

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Emily Dickinson: Not knowing when...

Emily Dickinson: Not knowing when...

Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.


Source: In Pearls of...

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Agnes George DeMille: The universe lies...

Agnes George DeMille: The universe lies...

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From...

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: Is it not...

George Eliot: Is it not...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and...

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George Eliot: Hostesses who entertain...

George Eliot: Hostesses who entertain...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than...

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George Eliot: Perhaps his might...

George Eliot: Perhaps his might...

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate...

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George Eliot: Human beings must...

George Eliot: Human beings must...

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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Jane Austen: One has not...

Jane Austen: One has not...

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men renounce whatever...

Andrea Dworkin: Men renounce whatever...

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left,...

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