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"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."
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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."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"

"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"

"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."

"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."

"I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate."

"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."

"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."

"For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven."

"Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it."

"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."
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