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"If I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
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"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
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"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
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"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."
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"Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book."
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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Life
"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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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."
Life
"She had been expecting me and was ready. She gave a long slow soundless headshake, merciful only in being inarticulate. This mercy didn't prevent its hurling at me the largest finest coldest 'Never!' I had yet, in the course of a life that had known denials, had to take full in the face. I took it and was aware that with the hard blow the tears had come into my eyes. So for a while we sat and looked at each other; after which I slowly rose. I was wondering if some day she would accept me; but this was not what I brought out. I said as I smoothed my hat: 'I know what to think then. It's nothing!"
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"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Life
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
Money
"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
Complexity
"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
Happiness
"Her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it."
Irony
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