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"I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression."
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"There are poets,there are philosophers, there are spiritualists and me. I try to foot the bill of these mighty three."

"I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."

"When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such."

"Smiling and Expressions of Emotion. A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, and encouraging. People do read a book by its cover and your expressions provide a glimpse for what they'll find inside."

"Colour me with you're intentions."

"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"

"Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean."

"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?"
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"Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes."


"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night."


"You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!"


"The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence."


"I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep."


"Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!"


"I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression."
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