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Mary Daly: Women have had...

Mary Daly: Women have had...

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the...

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Reinhold Niebuhr: Our age knows...

Reinhold Niebuhr: Our age knows...

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

Source:...

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Aristotle: Humor is the...

Aristotle: Humor is the...

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and...

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William James: The most immutable...

William James: The most immutable...

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.

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William James: No more fiendish...

William James: No more fiendish...

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned...

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William James: Success plus Self-esteem...

William James: Success plus Self-esteem...

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

Source: The Principles of Psychology,...

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Francis Bacon: Books are the...

Francis Bacon: Books are the...

Books are the ships which pass through the vast sea of time.

Source: In Webster's...

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Toni Morrison: Most of our...

Toni Morrison: Most of our...

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And...

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Mark Twain: What a man...

Mark Twain: What a man...

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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William H Gass: Life is itself...

William H Gass: Life is itself...

Life is itself exile . . . It is a blow from which only death will recover us.

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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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Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.


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James Agee: The mere attempt...

James Agee: The mere attempt...

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Source: Let Us...

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Don Delillo: Film is more...

Don Delillo: Film is more...

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen...

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Martin Amis: For myself and...

Martin Amis: For myself and...

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

If I make it, I will carry a pencil instead of the ritual sword.

Source: On her...

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Edward Hoagland: Animals are stylized...

Edward Hoagland: Animals are stylized...

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga --stylized because even the most acute of them have little...

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Douglas Coupland: I want pills...

Douglas Coupland: I want pills...

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never...

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Douglas Coupland: Cloning is great....

Douglas Coupland: Cloning is great....

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

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