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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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Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
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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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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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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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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Lady Margaret Sackville
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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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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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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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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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Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Regina Maria Roche
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Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.
Suzanne Enoch
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The morning-glory's blossoming will soon be coming round; We see their rows of heart-shaped leaves upspringing from the ground.
Maria White Lowell
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The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.
Alicia Ostriker
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A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.
Bette Bao Lord
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Displease the Winter King and we'll none of us see another spring.
C.L. Wilson
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I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.
Nell Zink
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Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you.
Jennifer Lee Carrell
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Retiring to the canopy of the bedroom, turning on the bedside light, taking the big dictionary to bed, clutching the unabridged bulk, heavy with the weight of all the meanings between these covers, smoothing the thin sheets, thick with accented syllables—all are exercises in the conscious regimen of dreamers, who toss words on their tongues while turning illuminated pages.
Harryette Mullen
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I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.
Rosa Nouchette Carey
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People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.
Nikki Gemmell
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Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?
Amity Gaige
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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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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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