You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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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 establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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