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So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
Colette
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My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Lady Margaret Sackville
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now
Emily Dickinson
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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
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Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature — and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
Lynne Cheney
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
Joan D. Vinge
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To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.
Virginia Woolf
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Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.
J. K. Rowling
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Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.
Helen Keller
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Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
Sheila Heti
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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
Geraldine Jewsbury
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Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!
Phoebe Cary
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Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.
Monique Truong
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Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth?
Katie MacAlister
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The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.
N. K. Jemisin
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Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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Fly humbly,
when you fly;
walk,
when you can.
Ruth Graham
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Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings renewed kindnesses.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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The world turns softly
Not to spill its lakes and rivers.
Hilda Conkling
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Like most everything, the history of hot air balloons is a history of sex and tragic death.
Kathryn Nuernberger
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The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
Lisa Gardner
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No one who cooks cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Laurie Colwin
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