The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
AGNES REPPLIERPeople with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
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There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
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