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Helen Keller: What a blind...

Helen Keller: What a blind...

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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-- Helen...

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Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...

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Dorothy Parker: If you're going...

Dorothy Parker: If you're going...

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that...

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Dorothy Parker: The only 'ism'...

Dorothy Parker: The only 'ism'...

The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Writing is thinking....

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Writing is thinking....

Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

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Ingrid Bengis: For me words...

Ingrid Bengis: For me words...

For me words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, live...

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Fran Lebowitz: There is no...

Fran Lebowitz: There is no...

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise...

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Fran Lebowitz: Children are rarely...

Fran Lebowitz: Children are rarely...

Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and...

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Erma Bombeck: Women are never...

Erma Bombeck: Women are never...

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift...

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Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever...

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George Eliot: The sense of...

George Eliot: The sense of...

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...

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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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George Eliot: Plainness has its...

George Eliot: Plainness has its...

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: There is only...

George Eliot: There is only...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one...

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George Eliot: When death, the...

George Eliot: When death, the...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...

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George Eliot: When death comes...

George Eliot: When death comes...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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George Eliot: Men's men: gentle...

George Eliot: Men's men: gentle...

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Source: Mrs. Girdle, in...

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Jane Austen: The sooner every...

Jane Austen: The sooner every...

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Source: Emma, Ch. 25
-- Jane...

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Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in...

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Rita Mae Brown: Recognition of function...

Rita Mae Brown: Recognition of function...

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Source: Starting from...

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