Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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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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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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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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