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Lewis Carroll: One can't believe...

Lewis Carroll: One can't believe...

One can't believe impossible things.
I daresay you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age,...

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Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

Italo Calvino: The satirist is...

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is...

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Italo Calvino: The human race...

Italo Calvino: The human race...

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

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Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Source: National Public Radio Interview/...

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Nora Ephron: I always read...

Nora Ephron: I always read...

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...

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Gertrude Stein: Considering how dangerous...

Gertrude Stein: Considering how dangerous...

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening.

Source: In...

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Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Many ideas grow...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Many ideas grow...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung...

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Orison Swett Marden: Begin where you...

Orison Swett Marden: Begin where you...

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be...

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Van Wyck Brooks: It is not...

Van Wyck Brooks: It is not...

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Theories by women...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Theories by women...

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are...

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George Sand: The trade of...

George Sand: The trade of...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Source: Letter,...

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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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Anthony Trollope: Success is the...

Anthony Trollope: Success is the...

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes...

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Anatole France: If fifty million...

Anatole France: If fifty million...

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Source: Quoted in:...

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J B S Haldane: If you want...

J B S Haldane: If you want...

If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

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J B S Haldane: If human beings...

J B S Haldane: If human beings...

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically...

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John Lubbock: Be cautious, but...

John Lubbock: Be cautious, but...

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will...

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Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

It's as if we women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up low slung racing cars, and we're...

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