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Ruth Benedict: The adequate study...

Ruth Benedict: The adequate study...

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only...

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Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] must be...

Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] must be...

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at...

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Jean Rhys: I like shape...

Jean Rhys: I like shape...

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

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Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: It has never...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: It has never...

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

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George Eliot: Those who trust...

George Eliot: Those who trust...

Those who trust us educate us.

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-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...

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George Eliot: When we get...

George Eliot: When we get...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and...

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George Eliot: It was not...

George Eliot: It was not...

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine...

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Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers...

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Mary Renault: In hatred as...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...

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Flannery O'Connor: I am not...

Flannery O'Connor: I am not...

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be...

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Lydia M Child: That man's best...

Lydia M Child: That man's best...

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that...

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George Eliot: Of what use,...

George Eliot: Of what use,...

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need...

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George Eliot: Life is measured...

George Eliot: Life is measured...

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the...

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Jane Austen: Next to being...

Jane Austen: Next to being...

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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Sylvia Plath: Nothing stinks like...

Sylvia Plath: Nothing stinks like...

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Source: In The Fourth 637 Best...

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Ursula Le Guin: The only thing...

Ursula Le Guin: The only thing...

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes...

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Eva Figes: Providing for one's...

Eva Figes: Providing for one's...

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over...

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Shirley Hufstedler: The role of...

Shirley Hufstedler: The role of...

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most...

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