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One thing that...

One thing that...

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape. . . it allows us to fix our emotions...

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Keep some souvenirs...

Keep some souvenirs...

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

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My life has...

My life has...

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

Source: From Charades,...

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Actors are the...

Actors are the...

Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream; and the height of their ambition is to be...

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Kingsley Amis: I wish I...

Kingsley Amis: I wish I...

I wish I could have a little tape-and-loudspeaker arrangement sewn into the binding of this magazine, to be triggered...

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Joseph Heller: When I grow...

Joseph Heller: When I grow...

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Source: Something Happened.
-- Joseph...

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Italo Calvino: It is not...

Italo Calvino: It is not...

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Source: Marco Polo, in...

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Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Italo Calvino: Everything can change,...

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's...

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Mark Twain: A monarch, when...

Mark Twain: A monarch, when...

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between...

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Charles Simmons: Most of the...

Charles Simmons: Most of the...

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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Ralph Ellison: The act of...

Ralph Ellison: The act of...

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers...

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Stephen Leacock: I am a...

Stephen Leacock: I am a...

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

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Kelly Miller: All great people...

Kelly Miller: All great people...

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized...

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Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
I lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure I rest upon the wave,
For Thou, O...

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Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...

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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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Martha Carey Thomas: . . ....

Martha Carey Thomas: . . ....

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and...

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Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Source: The...

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Meridel Le Sueur: Hard times ain't...

Meridel Le Sueur: Hard times ain't...

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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George S Patton: Now if you...

George S Patton: Now if you...

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. not tired....

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