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Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
Lawrence Hill
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If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.
Susan Juby
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By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept.
Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)
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There are deep lines on each side of his mouth and I know they are the scars from the thin blade of life.
Deborah Joy Corey
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Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?
Steven Galloway
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There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.
Marian Engel
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We consider the artist a special sort of person. It is more likely that each of us is a special sort of artist.
Elsa Gidlow
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The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.
Robert Service
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Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.
Heather O'Neill
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Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.
Betty Jane Wylie
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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
Karen Miller
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It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind.
Camilla Gibb
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The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
Jane Rule
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A church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.
Mazo de la Roche
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The white man had come with the Bible in one hand, the bottle in the other.
E. Pauline Johnson
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
Anne Carson
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I've always thought the prettiest smiles are the ones that show the most teeth.
D. W. Wilson
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And all about him was the wind now, a pervasive sighing trough great emptiness, as though the prairie itself was breathing in long gusting breaths, unhampered by the buildings of town, warm and living against his face and in his hair.
W. O. Mitchell
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If I don't do what feels right to me, what I need and want to do, then am I really living?
Cheryl Rainfield
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Rafe turned up looking like the glass of fashion and the mold of form.
Hulbert Footner
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How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead... that's the miracle.
Ami McKay
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A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she likely achieve the self-confidence she craves until she has withstood, and transcended, the weight of responsibility a family places upon her — a weight that makes all the paperwork and assignments of her in-basket seem feather-light.
Danielle Crittenden
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A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
George McWhirter
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All writers feel struck by the limitations of language.
Margaret Atwood
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Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.
Evelyn Eaton
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