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Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early...

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Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a...

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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: The Soul unto...

Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend --
Or the most agonizing Spy --
An Enemy --could send...

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Dorothy Parker: Where's the man...

Dorothy Parker: Where's the man...

Where's the man could ease a heart,
Like a satin gown?


Source: The Satin Dress,...

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Maya Angelou: We may encounter...

Maya Angelou: We may encounter...

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Maya Angelou: There is a...

Maya Angelou: There is a...

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Source:...

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Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...

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Susan Sontag: Life is a...

Susan Sontag: Life is a...

Life is a movie. Death is a photograph.

Source:
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16...

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Virgilia Peterson: Words have their...

Virgilia Peterson: Words have their...

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have...

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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George Eliot: An ass may...

George Eliot: An ass may...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Source: Romola, ch....

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Jane Austen: It is always...

Jane Austen: It is always...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of...

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Hannah Arendt: The point, as...

Hannah Arendt: The point, as...

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Source: Crises of the...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most...

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Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be...

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Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

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Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Source: The Practical Cogitator,...

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Louisa May Alcott: Life is my...

Louisa May Alcott: Life is my...

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

Source: In The...

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Rita Mae Brown: Humor comes from...

Rita Mae Brown: Humor comes from...

Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.

Source:...

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