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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Disappoint Ever Every Firm Mine Rock Stand Trust Yours
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Believe Country Hope However More Still
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Able Call Imagination Meet People Requirement Rich
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Life Man Novel Object Represent
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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Advantage Below Down Exailation Happiness Instead Lead Light One Pity Place Seen Sense World
An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Englishman Hold Natural never Tongue
Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Act Brain Clever Good Knowledge Nothing Unless
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Add Being Kept Only Something Tradition
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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