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GREG CHALMERS For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
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JANE FONDA Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe...
JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ...
JANE AUSTEN A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
JANE HEARD Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
JANE TAYLOR To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
JANE FONDA Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen...
JANE SEYMOUR In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain...
JANE SMILEY The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
JANE PORTER In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.
JANE HADDAM If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
JANE FONDA My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal...
JANE AUSTEN It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
JANE AUSTEN It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respec...
JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others.
JANE AUSTEN