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Anita Roddick: I hope to...

Anita Roddick: I hope to...

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.

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J P Morgan: Anyone who has...

J P Morgan: Anyone who has...

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

Source:...

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Victor Hugo: Forty is the...

Victor Hugo: Forty is the...

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty, the youth of old age.

Source: In The...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: The more sand...

Jean-Paul Sartre: The more sand...

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through...

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J B Priestley: As we read...

J B Priestley: As we read...

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven...

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J B Priestley: One of the...

J B Priestley: One of the...

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

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Maxwell Anderson: From the point...

Maxwell Anderson: From the point...

From the point of view of the playwright, then, the essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual...

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John Ford: Why, I hold...

John Ford: Why, I hold...

Why, I hold fate
Clasped in my fist, and could command the course
Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou...

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John Ford: Whilst we strive...

John Ford: Whilst we strive...

Whilst we strive
To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.


Source: The...

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Alexandre Dumas, fils: The chain of...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: The chain of...

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.

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Eugene Ionesco: Ideologies separate us....

Eugene Ionesco: Ideologies separate us....

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish brings us together.

Source: In The...

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Euripides: That glittering hope...

Euripides: That glittering hope...

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

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Jules Renard: Talent is a...

Jules Renard: Talent is a...

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.

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Tom Stoppard: Skill without imagination...

Tom Stoppard: Skill without imagination...

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination...

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Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

Zora Neale Hurston: It would be...

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. . . . We will go...

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Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Samuel Foote: So she went...

Samuel Foote: So she went...

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming...

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William Shakespeare: Brevity is the...

William Shakespeare: Brevity is the...

Brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.


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The old idea...

The old idea...

The old idea . . . of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense....

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Life is 10...

Life is 10...

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Source: In The...

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