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- The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
- Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
- Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
- It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
- Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), The Bell Jar, 1963
- I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.
- Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
- Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
- It is only the first step that is difficult.
- Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
- Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969
- The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
- Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
- Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
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