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" One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. "

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" The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. "

" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. "

" Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. "

" Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. "

" This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. "

" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "

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" One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. "

" Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. "

" These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. "

" Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. "

" Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. "

" I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. "

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" It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. "

" There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. "

" Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. "

" As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. "

" Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. "

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" It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. "

" This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. "

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" Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. "

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