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Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

I'm tired of saying, How wonderful you are! to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of...

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Tillie Olsen: Time granted does...

Tillie Olsen: Time granted does...

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

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Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you...

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Daphne DuMaurier: People who travel...

Daphne DuMaurier: People who travel...

People who travel are always fugitives.

Source: Frenchman's Creek.
-- Daphne...

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Edna O'Brien: In a way...

Edna O'Brien: In a way...

In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of...

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Rose Tremain: Life is not...

Rose Tremain: Life is not...

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Source: In the Sunday Correspondent (London), 24 Dec...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: You want the...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: You want the...

You want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

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Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man...

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Eden Phillpotts: Faith is a...

Eden Phillpotts: Faith is a...

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind -- a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without...

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Ben Hecht: A man who...

Ben Hecht: A man who...

A man who shows me his wealth is like a begger who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms -- the rich...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...

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Maria Edgeworth: All work and...

Maria Edgeworth: All work and...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.


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Stephen Potter: How to be...

Stephen Potter: How to be...

How to be one up - how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however...

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Ernest Bramah: He who thinks...

Ernest Bramah: He who thinks...

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Source:...

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Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of...

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Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality,...

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Robert Fulghum: Clean up your...

Robert Fulghum: Clean up your...

Clean up your own mess.

Source: All I Need to Know...
-- Robert Fulghum, (Jun 4...

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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R S Surtees: Three things I...

R S Surtees: Three things I...

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Source: Hillingdon...

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