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Katharine Hepburn: . . ....

Katharine Hepburn: . . ....

. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't...

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George Eliot: Speech is often...

George Eliot: Speech is often...

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...

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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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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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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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Fran Lebowitz: Vegetables are interesting...

Fran Lebowitz: Vegetables are interesting...

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of...

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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: Existence is no...

Susan Sontag: Existence is no...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and...

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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 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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Oprah Winfrey: If all this...

Oprah Winfrey: If all this...

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

The mighty are brought low by many a thing
Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk
Lies hid the pebble for...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Source: Ramona...

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George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...

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Jane Austen: From this day...

Jane Austen: From this day...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not...

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Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

My definition [of a philosopher] is a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine...

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Louisa May Alcott: I am not...

Louisa May Alcott: I am not...

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Source:
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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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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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Dorothy Parker: I require only...

Dorothy Parker: I require only...

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

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