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"The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires."
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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."
"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
"While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters."
"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."
"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."
"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
"I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come."
"That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness."
"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
"Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes, perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness."
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"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."
"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."
"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man."
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