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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.

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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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