A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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