If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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