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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMES

Begin Chasity Home Like Patriotism Think
It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Aberration Born Fool never Permitted Surprise
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Help Humanity More Nothing Respect Shadow
Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Immediate Life Novelist Our Pass Real Wait
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Fear Himself May Reveal Suspense Turned Viable Word
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Allow Better Desire Go Jump Push Wish
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Absorbing Consist Errand Get Happiness Lot One Out Point True
If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Close Detail Make Pulse Rhythm Selection Short Story Succinct Tremendous Very
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Bad Karma Man Manner Moral Pretend Really Understand Women
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Active Door Habit Imagination Jump Open Ridiculous Window
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Abbreration Adjective Born Fool Literature Sugar
In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Because Life Love Must Part Save Simply
We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Dark Give Hard Motivation Success Work
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Death Life Precede Predicament
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Apt Battle Beauty Defiant Enchant Evil Fact Folly Goodness Insolent Life Rare Strong Weak
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Add Being Kept Only Something Tradition
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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Deep Depression Downward Earthward Easier Failure Feeling Freer Live Other Realm Restriction Sound
One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Addiction Before Cruel Eager Forty Hard Ignorant Judge Much Too
To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Criticize Establish Fine Make One Own Relation
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Art Dark Doubt Give Madness Passion Task Work
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Astaire Constant Curiosity Immense Life Wonder

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