Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.


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The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished ...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN
I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN
I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN
If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN
My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN
I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN
For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN
A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN
My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN
It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL
I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN
When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR
Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL
There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO
When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT
I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY
Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY
I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY
I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY
To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB
In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH
'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH
In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY
One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA
I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY
When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA
If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY
I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY
The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL
Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR