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"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked."
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"He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous."
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"Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London."
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"Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture - still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savour the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish."
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"When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad."
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"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
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"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."
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"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."
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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
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"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."
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"In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."
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"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."
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"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
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"If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution."
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"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."
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