It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMESSummer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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