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Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

Tallulah Bankhead: I've tried several...

I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff...

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Lillian Gish: You know, when...

Lillian Gish: You know, when...

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: Women's virtue is...

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Source: In Paris '90.
-- Cornelia...

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Carol Burnett: People invite me...

Carol Burnett: People invite me...

People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from...

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William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

William Wordsworth: Poetry is the...

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in...

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Alexander Smith: We are never...

Alexander Smith: We are never...

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Source: Dreamthorp, ...

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Pindar: Natural ability is...

Pindar: Natural ability is...

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of...

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Moslih Eddin Saadi: A little and...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: A little and...

A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

Source: In 2,715...

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Richard Burton: If you're going...

Richard Burton: If you're going...

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

Source: On his films,...

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Novalis: Learning is pleasurable...

Novalis: Learning is pleasurable...

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Source: In The...

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Robert Burns: Suspense is worst...

Robert Burns: Suspense is worst...

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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J August Strindberg: A man with...

J August Strindberg: A man with...

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the...

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Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Source: Narcissa,...

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Robert Frost: I shall be...

Robert Frost: I shall be...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I...

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Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Denise Levertov: The poem has...

Denise Levertov: The poem has...

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in...

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Anne Sexton: In a dream...

Anne Sexton: In a dream...

In a dream you are never eighty.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...

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Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

He told me never to sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Source:...

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