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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,…
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker,…
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Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
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I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination,…
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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work…
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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more…
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
— Robert Burns
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When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light…
— Farkas Bolyai
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Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.
— Diane Ackerman
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Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two.
— Gerry Cheevers
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Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.
— Julia Caroline Dorr
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Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we…
— Richard Hovey
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I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.
— Thomas Buchanan Read
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Twisting and wiring and stringing starching and curling, delicately painting spots and shadings on scraps of silk until what had been nothing…
— Melanie McGrath
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When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The…
— William Shakespeare
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Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his…
— William Maxwell
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