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Susan Sontag: Unfortunately, moral beauty...

Susan Sontag: Unfortunately, moral beauty...

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...

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Susan Sontag: We live under...

Susan Sontag: We live under...

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality 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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Andrea Dworkin: By the time...

Andrea Dworkin: By the time...

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale...

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Andrea Dworkin: No phallic hero,...

Andrea Dworkin: No phallic hero,...

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary,...

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Dorothy Parker: Lips that taste...

Dorothy Parker: Lips that taste...

Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.


Source:...

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Dorothy Parker: Four things I...

Dorothy Parker: Four things I...

Four things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.


Source:...

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Fran Lebowitz: Children are rarely...

Fran Lebowitz: Children are rarely...

Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and...

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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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Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

It is eleven years since I have seen my figure in a glass. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable, I...

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George Eliot: Each thought is...

George Eliot: Each thought is...

Each thought is a nail that is driven
In structures that cannot decay;
And the mansion at last will be...

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George Eliot: Opposition may become...

George Eliot: Opposition may become...

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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Jane Austen: She was nothing...

Jane Austen: She was nothing...

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...

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Rita Mae Brown: You sell a...

Rita Mae Brown: You sell a...

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

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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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Emily Dickinson: If I read...

Emily Dickinson: If I read...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is...

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Fran Lebowitz: Stand firm in...

Fran Lebowitz: Stand firm in...

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as...

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