"If I had more time I would write a shorter letter."

Pascal, Blaise on Writers and Writing
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"He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."

Lao-Tzu on Giving
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"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

Lao-Tzu on Desire
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on Kindness
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on Attachment
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"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants."

Lao-Tzu on Arts and Artists
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely."

Belinsky, Vissarion on Literature
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"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Saroyan, William on Life and Living
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"If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her."

Williamson, Nicol on Humor
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"Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?"

Millet, Kate on Privacy
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"The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?"

Hamnett, Katharine on Dress
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"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

Fields, W. C. on Abstinence
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"Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with."

Fields, W. C. on Smile
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"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."

West, Mae on Dress
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"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

West, Mae on Evil
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"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."

West, Mae on Humor
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"He who hesitates is a damned fool."

West, Mae on Procrastination
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on Love
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on Smile
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"We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture."

Kundera, Milan on Life and Living
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

Dyer, Wayne on Abundance
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on Change
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"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."

Gide, Andre on Death and Dying
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"The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered."

Gide, Andre on Impulse
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"Only my condemnation injures me."

A Course In Miracles on Control
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"Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks."

Abrantes, Duchess on Prejudice
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"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

Augustine, St. on Abstinence
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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on Mind
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"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."

Spark, Muriel on Psychiatry
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"A timid question will always receive a confident answer."

Darling, Lord on Questions
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"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Sarcasm
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"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on Acceptance
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"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

Alcott, Louisa May on Girls
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"If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it."

Cocteau, Jean on Asceticism
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"Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else."

Ashford, Evelyn on Work, Hard
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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on Adaptability
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"Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage."

Steinem, Gloria on Gambling
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"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

Steinem, Gloria on Power
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"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

Steinem, Gloria on Writers and Writing
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