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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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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
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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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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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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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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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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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Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
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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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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Lady Margaret Sackville
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Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.
Kathy Acker
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Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God, to Thee.
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
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Oh, that in religion, as in everything else, man would judge his brother man by his own heart; and as dear, as precious as his peculiar creed may be to him, believe so it is with the faith of his brother!
Grace Aguilar
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If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.
Anna Akhmatova
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As Rose stood by him watching the ease with which he quickly brought order out of chaos, she privately resolved to hunt up her old arithmetic and perfect herself in the four first rules, with a good tug at fractions, before she read any more fairy tales.
Louisa May Alcott
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Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.
Cecil Frances Alexander
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It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
Margery Allingham
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I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
Dorothy Allison
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The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
Lisa Alther
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In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
Maya Angelou
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The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.
Núria Añó
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What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.
Laura Antoniou
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It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.
Karen Armstrong
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