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When in doubt,...

When in doubt,...

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Oh, that it...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Oh, that it...

Oh, that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I...

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Isaac Newton: If I have...

Isaac Newton: If I have...

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Source: Letter...

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One is not...

One is not...

One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.

Source: The Second Sex,...

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James Bryce: No wonder that,...

James Bryce: No wonder that,...

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They...

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Patience is one...

Patience is one...

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...

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Brendan Behan: New York is...

Brendan Behan: New York is...

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment . . . . a place where you're least likely to be bitten my...

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Edward Albee: A play is...

Edward Albee: A play is...

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Source: In NY Times, 18...

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Marcel Proust: A powerful idea...

Marcel Proust: A powerful idea...

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Source:...

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Youth is when...

Youth is when...

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced...

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Joe Frazier: This is just...

Joe Frazier: This is just...

This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

Source: Before his first...

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A country governed...

A country governed...

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.

Source: Life of Johnson, (J....

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Brendan Behan: Critics are like...

Brendan Behan: Critics are like...

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do...

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Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

Alain Locke: The Younger Generation...

The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks,...

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The fifties --...

The fifties --...

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...

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The old system...

The old system...

The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact...

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Junius: Be not affronted...

Junius: Be not affronted...

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art...

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Sex can no...

Sex can no...

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner,...

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ADMIRATION, n. --...

ADMIRATION, n. --...

ADMIRATION, n. -- Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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Today's shocks are...

Today's shocks are...

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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