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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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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
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
I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Application Art Beauty Consideration Important Interest Life Make Process Substitute Thing
Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Do Hope Know Tou Until Try
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Combination Country Every Glory Hate Pill Simplicity Sort
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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Compromise Creative Creature God Himself Indeed Infinite Man Reveal True Unitary
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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Art Beautiful Cruse Flourned Live Love Much Must Possible Suffer Talk Way
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Abbreration Adjective Born Fool Literature Sugar
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Allow Better Desire Go Jump Push Wish
You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Because Life Love Must Part Save Simply
And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Been Emotion Feeling Hate Love Reminder
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Fizzle Grease Own Same Sausage Spulter
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Bad Karma Man Manner Moral Pretend Really Understand Women
Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Anything Change Different might never Thing Wait
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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Explore Feel Incapable Kill Live Say Tell Worth
Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Close Detail Make Pulse Rhythm Selection Short Story Succinct Tremendous Very
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Country Eat Garbage Ketchup Provide Sprinkle
I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Anything Care Know Like Reason
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Between Desire Said Several Something Two Understanding Way
If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Emotion Feel Love Overrated Respect
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Deal Great History Literature Little Produce Take

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