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Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It was formerly...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It was formerly...

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided...

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George Moore: Faith goes out...

George Moore: Faith goes out...

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.

Source: In The...

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George Moore: A very slight...

George Moore: A very slight...

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the...

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Rachel Field: There was no...

Rachel Field: There was no...

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities...

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Katherine Paterson: The name we...

Katherine Paterson: The name we...

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

Source: In Words of...

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Kate Seredy: Kill the snake...

Kate Seredy: Kill the snake...

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your...

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Jean Genet: Anyone who knows...

Jean Genet: Anyone who knows...

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Source: Prisoner of...

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Edgar Watson Howe: I never met...

Edgar Watson Howe: I never met...

I never met a man so mean that I was not willing he should admire me.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: Art, like morality,...

G K Chesterton: Art, like morality,...

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Source: Orthodoxy,...

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Theodor W Adorno: A successful work...

Theodor W Adorno: A successful work...

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the...

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Otto Weininger: The genius which...

Otto Weininger: The genius which...

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Source: Sex and...

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Socrates: When desire, having...

Socrates: When desire, having...

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Source: Ramona...

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Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg...

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Robert Graves: Prose books are...

Robert Graves: Prose books are...

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Source: On...

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Robert Graves: The remarkable thing...

Robert Graves: The remarkable thing...

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good -- in spite of all the people who say he is very...

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Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Injections. . ....

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Injections. . ....

Injections. . . are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Justice. . ....

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Justice. . ....

Justice. . . limps along, but it gets there all the same.

Source: Guardiola, in In...

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