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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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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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