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- Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
- Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
- 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
- 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)
- It has all been very interesting.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
- To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
- Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
- I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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