Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESIn 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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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