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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Country Eat Garbage Ketchup Provide Sprinkle
To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Care Happen Know Only People Proportion
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Character Determination Fact Illustration Incident
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Aesthetic Alien Everything Everywhere Outside Solitary
Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Believe Country Hope However More Still
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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All Experience Life Mistakes
If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Lost Nothing One People Search Try
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Always Art Beaty Economy
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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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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Afternoon Again Beautiful Everything Glad Mean Part Perhaps Right Together
Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Extremely Irony Underestimate Valuable Value
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Artistic Beauty Force Know Process Substitute
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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Autumn Beautiful Brush Dusky Evening Imagination Light Window Wing

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