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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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EDITH WHARTON Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
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E. LOCKHART Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did...
LEO TOLSTOY She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
ANAIS NIN She did not belong to Will-she was too much herself to belong to anyone, even Jem-but she belonged w...
CASSANDRA CLARE She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ...
AYN RAND She attacked. What she did is she got into the lane and caused havoc. She not only created for herse...
CHET REED All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident tha...
BARRY AXELROD ... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the...
CORNELIA FUNKE She could light up your day. She had a wonderful sense of humor and she always looked out for others...
RONNIQUE BENJAMIN She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels t...
ANNA GODBERSEN A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful,...
STACY SCHIFF She really enjoyed herself and did very well.
GEORGIA TAYLOR How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remem...
MAHITA VAS She was a lovely person who involved herself with other seniors. She was very interested in what was...
CYNTHIA LEE Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, more...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She couldn't bring herself to care, because those moment she spent brawling were the few moments she...
SARAH J. MAAS Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had onc...
JANE LEAVY She was a composer, carefully orchestrating how much of herself she let people see. Some thought the...
LAUREN VALENCIA And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able t...
ITALO CALVINO Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other...
FRANCES HARDINGE Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such thin...
ROBERT GALBRAITH She you know, carries herself a little higher, she smiles a little bigger, it's pleasing to see, it'...
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TROY MILLER How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w...
ELIZABETH GASKELL It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they we...
ÉMILE ZOLA It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR She thought not so much of what had happened as of how she could describe it.
E.M. FORSTER She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could...
ELIZABETH BOWEN She wanted to be a varsity starter very badly. You could see she had the potential, but whenever she...
JACKIE PARSLEY Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were...
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Stop it, she told herself.

There was only so much she could control.

But that ...
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MILAN KUNDERA Aelin had promised herself, months and months ago, that she would not pretend to be anything but wha...
SARAH J. MAAS ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
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EMILY MAGUIRE I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But a...
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MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of bo...
JEAN RHYS It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a worl...
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NEIL GAIMAN She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. ...
MARITA BONNER She took care of herself. She just decided that was enough. She's too independent and wanted to do w...
EUGENIA BLIZZARD When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she i...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the par...
DUDLEY CLENDINEN She refused to be one of those girls who fell for a pretty face that just white-washed a total jack-...
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ANNA GODBERSEN She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of hersel...
ANAïS NIN She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in t...
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GERMAINE GREER She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered, as she had sometimes before, how this thing...
IAN MCEWAN But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love.

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PETER CAREY She tried to educate herself about issues that would make life better for other people in society th...
CAROL CARTER Courtney played well and she made a great save. The game is 1-1 if she doesn't extend herself, and s...
GUY CALLIPARI She did not question his advice nor did she realize she could seek an opinion from us.
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I love Maya Rudolph. She's very multitalented herself.
CAROL BURNETT She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you o...
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JAN COMPTON These kisses... they were confessions. Tastes of everything she had stored inside her. Everything sh...
TESSA DARE I know she can take care of herself, but it's still hard to say goodbye.
SHARON WILSON She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
LEWIS CARROLL She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)
LEWIS CARROLL Crying herself to sleep because she relized she could handle being alone.
MARLENE M. CHAVEZ She was rigorous and had high standards because she believed everyone could do great work. But she r...
FELICIA LONDRE Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you kno...
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CAROL BURNETT Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
CAROL BURNETT If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing b...
LEO BURNETT We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hel...
LEO BURNETT It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by a...
CAROL BURNETT Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and...
LEO BURNETT I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to te...
CAROL BURNETT We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
CAROL BURNETT I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out ag...
CAROL BURNETT I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called &...
MARK BURNETT Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulati...
LEO BURNETT Without immigrants, we never would've built this place.
BILL BURNETT In 1955 we did have a strike in the mine at Gilman and boy, it was a wild time, we had lots of fight...
BILL BURNETT Without immigrants, we never would've built this place. There were about 100 Japanese here that rais...
BILL BURNETT It goes back a ways, I've seen changes in the town.
BILL BURNETT Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies...
MARK BURNETT Our pitching has definitely carried us. All three go out and compete and give a chance to win on mos...
ASHLEY BURNETT We're in a good position, but we still have to go out there and compete. At least this gives us an o...
ASHLEY BURNETT It's a different identity to itself because everybody's record is zero. I think we played as well as...
ASHLEY BURNETT Right now it's just fun. We're just playing the game and having fun.
ASHLEY BURNETT It's been like that all year long. It's been a different guy every game, who gets a big hit here, a ...
ASHLEY BURNETT No matter how well you hit, you're going to face good pitching in the playoffs. So you've got to hav...
ASHLEY BURNETT If we can go through those (games) playing good, solid baseball, I think we've got a chance to go pr...
ASHLEY BURNETT (The Panthers) weren't able to throw their No. 1 or No. 2 guys, but not to take away anything from m...
ASHLEY BURNETT Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
CAROL BURNETT The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants,...
LEO BURNETT Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
LEO BURNETT My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a ...
CAROL BURNETT My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-roo...
CAROL BURNETT Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You ca...
MARK BURNETT The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is mo...
LEO BURNETT 'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponso...
MARK BURNETT She suffered. She suffered a whole lot. And at one point I was praying for her to be released. You k...
CAROL BURNETT When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go
CAROL BURNETT She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I...
CAROL BURNETT People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate grati...
CAROL BURNETT I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT She said, 'Mama, if I can take it back ...,
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