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George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871-1872
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Failure after long perseverance is much
grander than never to have a striving good
enough to be called a failure.
-George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871-1872
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Mae West, My Little Chickadee, 1940
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -Mae West, My
Little Chickadee, 1940
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Ruth Gordon, Years Ago, 1946
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I got anything I want to have; but I'll never have anything at all if trou-ble makes me go and give up! -Ruth Gordon, Years Ago, 1946
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Barbara Ehrenreich, "Wimps," The Worst Years of Our Lives, 1991
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Someone has to stand up for wimps. -Barbara Ehrenreich, "Wimps,"
The Worst Years of Our Lives, 1991
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Garrison Keilor, "When I'm 64," Salon.com, 8 August 2006
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten
is Minnesota and North Dakota. -Garrison Keilor, "When I'm 64,"
Salon.com, 8 August 2006
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Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
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But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
-Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982
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Carl Jung, "The Transcendent Function" (1916), The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, R. F. C. Hull, tr., 1960
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. -Carl Jung,
"The Transcendent Function" (1916), The Structure and Dynamics of the
Psyche, R. F. C. Hull, tr., 1960
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Molière, Les Précieuses Ridicules, 1659
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I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
-Molière, Les Précieuses Ridicules, 1659
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Isadora Duncan, curtain speech, Symphony Hall (Boston), 1922
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You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you! -Isadora Duncan,
curtain speech, Symphony Hall (Boston), 1922
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Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen," The Language of the Night, 1979
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst
walls are the ones you put there-you build yourself. Those are the high
ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. -Ursula K. Le Guin,
"The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen," The Language of the Night, 1979