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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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Dorothy Parker: I can't write...

Dorothy Parker: I can't write...

I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Source: In The Algonquin Wits, by...

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George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Source: Adam Bede.
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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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Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man...

Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man...

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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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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Emily Dickinson: How much can...

Emily Dickinson: How much can...

How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the world!


Source: There...

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Emily Dickinson: Pain - has...

Emily Dickinson: Pain - has...

Pain - has an Element of Blank -
It cannot recollect
When it begun - or if there were
A time when it was not...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: North and South...

Rebecca Harding Davis: North and South...

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to...

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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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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 love of...

Susan Sontag: The love of...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...

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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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Gertrude Stein: It is inevitable...

Gertrude Stein: It is inevitable...

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a...

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Madeleine L'Engle: To create a...

Madeleine L'Engle: To create a...

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and...

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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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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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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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Rita Mae Brown: I believe in...

Rita Mae Brown: I believe in...

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Source: Starting from...

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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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