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Mary Wortley Montagu: No entertainment is...

Mary Wortley Montagu: No entertainment is...

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Source:...

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Fran Lebowitz: If your sexual...

Fran Lebowitz: If your sexual...

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be...

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright...

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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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Susan B Anthony: Sooner or later...

Susan B Anthony: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the...

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Helen Rowland: To make a...

Helen Rowland: To make a...

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or...

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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: That woman speaks...

Dorothy Parker: That woman speaks...

That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say No in any of them.

Source: Said...

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Susan Sontag: Unfortunately, moral beauty...

Susan Sontag: Unfortunately, moral beauty...

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...

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George Eliot: Whether happiness may...

George Eliot: Whether happiness may...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

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George Eliot: It is, I...

George Eliot: It is, I...

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a...

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George Eliot: This is a...

George Eliot: This is a...

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

Source: Mr. Tulliver,...

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...

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Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody! Who...

Emily Dickinson: I'm Nobody! Who...

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you -- Nobody -- Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise...

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Susan Sontag: Perversity is the...

Susan Sontag: Perversity is the...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Source: Against Interpretation,...

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Susan Sontag: The taste for...

Susan Sontag: The taste for...

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also...

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Susan Sontag: The ideology of...

Susan Sontag: The ideology of...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of...

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Susan Sontag: The taste for...

Susan Sontag: The taste for...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...

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