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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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