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Sara Teasdale: When I can...

Sara Teasdale: When I can...

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And...

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Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Mistakes are a fact of life
It is the response to error that counts.


Source: Of...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

One ugly trick has often spoiled
The sweetest and the best;
Matilda, though a pleasant child,
One ugly trick...

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Lillian Hellman: If I had...

Lillian Hellman: If I had...

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or...

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Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Source: The Little Foxes, 1939.
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Dodie Smith: For though he...

Dodie Smith: For though he...

For though he had very little Latin beyond Cave canem, he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty...

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Euripides: Among mortals second...

Euripides: Among mortals second...

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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William Gilbert: No good play...

William Gilbert: No good play...

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for...

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August Wilson: I found out...

August Wilson: I found out...

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.

Source: West, in Two Trains...

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Aristophanes: You cannot teach...

Aristophanes: You cannot teach...

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Source: From a collection of quotations...

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Eugene Ionesco: Childhood is the...

Eugene Ionesco: Childhood is the...

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly...

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Oscar Wilde: Formerly we used...

Oscar Wilde: Formerly we used...

Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may...

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John Ciardi: A good question...

John Ciardi: A good question...

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear...

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John Vanbrugh: The want of...

John Vanbrugh: The want of...

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

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Samuel Foote: When house and...

Samuel Foote: When house and...

When house and land are gone and spent,
Then learning is most excellent.


Source:...

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Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Women have no wilderness in them
They are provident instead
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To...

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Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Louise A Bogan: Life and death...

Life and death occur, as they must, but they are all bound up with love and hatred, in the individual bosom, and it is...

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Stanislaw Lec: The window to...

Stanislaw Lec: The window to...

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Source: In Webster's...

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Harold Macmillan: If you don't...

Harold Macmillan: If you don't...

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very good. Better decent than...

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Robert McNamara: Coercion, after all,...

Robert McNamara: Coercion, after all,...

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

Source: To...

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