Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
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I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.
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A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.
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The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'
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Tax increases aren't the answer. It would remove income from Americans' pockets, slow or stagnate job creation, and potentially lead to an overall economic downturn.
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
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I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.
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Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.
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This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?
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Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
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I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.
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The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
