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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."
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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."


"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."


"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."


"Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm."


"He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society."


"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."


"Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition."
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