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Prose Inspirational Quotes (57)

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She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended.
Kathleen Winsor
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It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.
Kurt Tucholsky
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Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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the truth is artistically fallacious.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.
Kathleen Winsor
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I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.
Peter Bogdanovich
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A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
Kathleen Winsor
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there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public and the other is to cheat it.
Kathleen Winsor
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A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.
Kurt Tucholsky
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Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
Kathleen Winsor
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Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.
Kurt Tucholsky
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[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.
Kathleen Winsor
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Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.
Peter Bogdanovich
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