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All Quotes Collection
"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
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"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
35
"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."
39
"To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach."
37
"A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better."
38
"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."
59
"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."
43
"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."
37
"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
48
"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."
59
"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
41
"The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round."
37
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
53
"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."
52
"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
49
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
43
"When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out."
49
"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."
49
"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
46
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
54
"Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought."
41
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
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