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I believe all literature started as gossip.Source: Starting From Scratch/...
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Life is too short for a long story.Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.Source: The Mill on...
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the...
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...
Life is a movie. Death is a photograph.Source: -- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16...
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...
North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to...
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.Source: In Webster's...
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious...
I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if...
. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will...
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.Source: Metropolitan Life,...
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb...
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. More about this quote
Where's the man could ease a heart,Like a satin gown?Source: The Satin Dress,...
Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.Source:...
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