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"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."
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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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"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
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"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."
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"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."
Inspirational

"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
Religion

"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
Leadership

"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
Choice

"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
Art

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
Art

"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
Writing

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
Marriage

"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
Marriage

"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."
Wisdom
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