To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
HENRY JAMESCriticism 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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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