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Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...

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Anzia Yezierska: The power that...

Anzia Yezierska: The power that...

The power that makes the grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us...

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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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Daphne DuMaurier: Life and death...

Daphne DuMaurier: Life and death...

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Source: My Cousin Rachel, 1952.
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Vance Palmer: Anyone who takes...

Vance Palmer: Anyone who takes...

Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. ....

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Vance Palmer: The voice of...

Vance Palmer: The voice of...

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless...

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Shirley Jackson: February, when the...

Shirley Jackson: February, when the...

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of...

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Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...

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Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

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Graham Henry Greene: Innocence is like...

Graham Henry Greene: Innocence is like...

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no...

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Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

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Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch....

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Charles Dickens: It is a...

Charles Dickens: It is a...

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Source:...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Christopher Wren<br>Said,...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Christopher Wren
Said,...

Sir Christopher Wren
Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I am designing St...

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Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace...

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Ruth Westheimer: Talking from morning...

Ruth Westheimer: Talking from morning...

Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about...

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Sigmund Freud: Thought is action...

Sigmund Freud: Thought is action...

Thought is action in rehearsal.

Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3, by DBUG, 1991.
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Wilhelm Stekel: People who do...

Wilhelm Stekel: People who do...

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.

Source:...

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Wilhelm Stekel: Truth is not...

Wilhelm Stekel: Truth is not...

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish with their eyes...

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Frantz Fanon: Fervor is the...

Frantz Fanon: Fervor is the...

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Source: Black Skins, White Masks,...

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