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Susan Sontag: The whole point...

Susan Sontag: The whole point...

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a...

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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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Susan Sontag: Although none of...

Susan Sontag: Although none of...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating...

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Erma Bombeck: I am not...

Erma Bombeck: I am not...

I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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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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Helen Keller: The marvelous richness...

Helen Keller: The marvelous richness...

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to...

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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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Jane Austen: It does not...

Jane Austen: It does not...

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any...

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George Eliot: This is a...

George Eliot: This is a...

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

Source: Mr. Tulliver,...

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Rita Mae Brown: Lead me not...

Rita Mae Brown: Lead me not...

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Source: From a collection...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

General notions are generally wrong.

Source: From an Internet collection of...

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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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Agnes George DeMille: The universe lies...

Agnes George DeMille: The universe lies...

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From...

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright...

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Dorothy Parker: Drink, and dance...

Dorothy Parker: Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But,...

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Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts...

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Dorothy Parker: He and I...

Dorothy Parker: He and I...

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

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Susan Sontag: The quality of...

Susan Sontag: The quality of...

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space,...

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Susan B Anthony: I distrust those...

Susan B Anthony: I distrust those...

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their...

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Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...

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