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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

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Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

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Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

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You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

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A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.

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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

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and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

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Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

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I prefer men to cauliflowers

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