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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.

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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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 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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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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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