If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESUnder 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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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