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Helen Keller: No matter how...

Helen Keller: No matter how...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable...

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Dorothy Parker: I'd like to...

Dorothy Parker: I'd like to...

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...

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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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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: 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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Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

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

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...

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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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P D James: Life had taught...

P D James: Life had taught...

Life had taught hm that the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Source: In The Book of Positive Quotations, by...

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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: Oh, write of...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!


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Rita Mae Brown: If the world...

Rita Mae Brown: If the world...

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

Source: Sudden...

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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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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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Helen Keller: Many persons have...

Helen Keller: Many persons have...

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but...

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Helen Rowland: To make a...

Helen Rowland: To make a...

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or...

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Susan Sontag: Illness is the...

Susan Sontag: Illness is the...

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the...

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Susan Sontag: The taste for...

Susan Sontag: The taste for...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...

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Shirley Temple Black: I was very...

Shirley Temple Black: I was very...

I was very sophisticated when I was 17. When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was . . . I've been getting younger...

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