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Indeed, the sole criticism of him was that he prolonged beyond the point of decency, his look of nuptial rapture and...
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My own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.Source: The Earl...
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even...
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.Source: The House in Paris,...
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for...
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.Source: Dominique, in A...
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to...
He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education the...
Experience suggests it doesn?t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive....
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have...
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be...
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient...
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up...
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination...
That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other...
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The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink,...
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she...
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