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Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to…
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No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,'
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
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A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.…
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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what…
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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been…
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An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a…
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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come…
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I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams,…
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My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the…
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in…
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Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a…
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Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
— Sun Tzu
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My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
— Charlaine Harris
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Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess,…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name…
— Paulo Coelho
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It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place…
— Beryl Markham
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I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729,…
— G. H. Hardy
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The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.
— Ethan Embry
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There is something in omens.
— Ovid
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I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each…
— Sam Keen
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When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.
— Ernest Bramah
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Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.
— Michael Herr
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