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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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