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Christina Rossetti: I might show...

Christina Rossetti: I might show...

I might show facts as plain as day:
But since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
Where? What? and turn...

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Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
And Life is over there --
Behind the...

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Brigitte Bardot: I leave before...

Brigitte Bardot: I leave before...

I leave before being left. I decide.

Source: In Newsweek, 5 Mar 1973.
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Patricia Neal: [Hollywood] always sounds...

Patricia Neal: [Hollywood] always sounds...

[Hollywood] always sounds glamorous when you're young.

Source: In TIme, 20 Mar...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Egotism -- usually...

Barbara Stanwyck: Egotism -- usually...

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Source: In The New Webster's...

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: Among the most...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: Among the most...

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest...

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Thelma Ritter: Between the late...

Thelma Ritter: Between the late...

Between the late late show at night and Dave Garroway in the morning, why, it seems like there ain't much...

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Thelma Ritter: Nobody ever invented...

Thelma Ritter: Nobody ever invented...

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Source: Ritter Kelly when...

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Maggie Smith: What was wrong...

Maggie Smith: What was wrong...

What was wrong with those people tonight? Never have I heard such a cacophony of coughs before! Is there an epidemic?...

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Jane Seymour: Music has brought...

Jane Seymour: Music has brought...

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes....

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Kathleen Turner: I'm not bad,...

Kathleen Turner: I'm not bad,...

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

Source: Turner as the voice of Jessica Rabbit...

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Mae West: I generally avoid...

Mae West: I generally avoid...

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Source: 'My Little...

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Lillian Gish: What you get...

Lillian Gish: What you get...

What you get is a living -- what you give is a life.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Shirley Temple Black: Make-believe colors the...

Shirley Temple Black: Make-believe colors the...

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

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Nannie Burroughs: We specialize in...

Nannie Burroughs: We specialize in...

We specialize in the wholly impossible.

Source: Motto of the National Training...

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Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Source: Ji`bilee,...

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Meridel Le Sueur: Surround of rainbows...

Meridel Le Sueur: Surround of rainbows...

Surround of rainbows
Listen
The rain comes upon us
Restore us.


Source:...

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Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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