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Christina Rossetti: Who has seen...

Christina Rossetti: Who has seen...

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads.
The wind is passing...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin....

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Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not...

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Oprah Winfrey: The more you...

Oprah Winfrey: The more you...

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

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Diane Arbus: A photograph is...

Diane Arbus: A photograph is...

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

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Jinger Heath: You are in...

Jinger Heath: You are in...

You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as...

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Barbara Ward: The modern world...

Barbara Ward: The modern world...

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be...

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Sylvia Porter: The average family...

Sylvia Porter: The average family...

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the...

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Tallulah Bankhead: Acting is a...

Tallulah Bankhead: Acting is a...

Acting is a form of confusion.

Source: Tallulah. 1952.
-- Tallulah Bankhead,...

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Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: Husbands are like...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: Husbands are like...

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

Source: In Newsweek, 28 Mar...

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Deborah Kerr: [Autobiographies] are all...

Deborah Kerr: [Autobiographies] are all...

[Autobiographies] are all the same -- it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say...

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Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Source: In Time 3 Mar...

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Katharine Hepburn: If you survive...

Katharine Hepburn: If you survive...

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Source:...

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Ruth Gordon: If you believe,...

Ruth Gordon: If you believe,...

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on...

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Greta Garbo: Every one of...

Greta Garbo: Every one of...

Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough.

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Thelma Ritter: Do you know...

Thelma Ritter: Do you know...

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: For me, getting...

Michelle Pfeiffer: For me, getting...

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard -- that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of...

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Marie Dressler: Fate cast me...

Marie Dressler: Fate cast me...

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy...

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