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May Sarton: In a total...

May Sarton: In a total...

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

Source: Mrs....

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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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Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Dodie Smith: My imagination longs...

Dodie Smith: My imagination longs...

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's...

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Arthur Miller: When any creativity...

Arthur Miller: When any creativity...

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes...

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Marsha Norman: People do think...

Marsha Norman: People do think...

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear...

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Eugene Ionesco: Many people have...

Eugene Ionesco: Many people have...

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

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Beth Henley: And all writing...

Beth Henley: And all writing...

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it...

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Edmond Rostand: The dream, alone,...

Edmond Rostand: The dream, alone,...

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?

Source: La...

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Philip Massinger: To doubt is...

Philip Massinger: To doubt is...

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on...

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Aristophanes: You have all...

Aristophanes: You have all...

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar...

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Jean Racine: I loved you...

Jean Racine: I loved you...

I loved you when you were inconstant. What should I have done if you had been faithful? (Je t'aimais inconstant,...

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William Shakespeare: A morsel for...

William Shakespeare: A morsel for...

A morsel for a monarch.

Source: Antony and Cleopatra, I. v. (31).
-- William...

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William Shakespeare: A rarer spirit...

William Shakespeare: A rarer spirit...

A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us...

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Friedrich von Schiller: The great happiness...

Friedrich von Schiller: The great happiness...

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical...

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Martial: A good man...

Martial: A good man...

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to...

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Oscar Wilde: Duty is what...

Oscar Wilde: Duty is what...

Duty is what one expects from others.

Source: Lord Illingworth, in A Woman of No...

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Luigi Pirandello: Every true man,...

Luigi Pirandello: Every true man,...

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living,...

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Philip James Bailey: Who never doubted,...

Philip James Bailey: Who never doubted,...

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her...

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Ogden Nash: Senescence begins<br>And middle...

Ogden Nash: Senescence begins
And middle...

Senescence begins
And middle age ends,
The day your descendants,
Outnumber your...

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