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- Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
- Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
- I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
- Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
- That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
- Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973
- I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
- Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)
- I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- It has all been very interesting.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
- I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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