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Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody! Who...

Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody! Who...

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise...

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Dorothy Parker: Men seldom make...

Dorothy Parker: Men seldom make...

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.


Source: News Item, Enough...

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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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Dorothy Parker: Money cannot buy...

Dorothy Parker: Money cannot buy...

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Source:...

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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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Susan Sontag: What is most...

Susan Sontag: What is most...

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something...

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Helen Rowland: The tenderest spot...

Helen Rowland: The tenderest spot...

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

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Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: The great thing...

Madeleine L'Engle: The great thing...

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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Madeleine L'Engle: To create a...

Madeleine L'Engle: To create a...

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and...

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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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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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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: Language is the...

Rita Mae Brown: Language is the...

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are...

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Rita Mae Brown: Show me a...

Rita Mae Brown: Show me a...

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to...

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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: Hatred is like...

George Eliot: Hatred is like...

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Source: In Webster's...

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Annie Dillard: There is a...

Annie Dillard: There is a...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or...

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