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"Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes, perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done--whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was."
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"She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried. She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there. Neither was she ever seen by human vision to go at a great pace."
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"Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year."
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"Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world."
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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."
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"The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place."
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"A cat is a cat."
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"It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason
"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism
"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
Trust
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
Art
"The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink."
Life
"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
Family
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