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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running aw...more

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

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There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress [Mrs. Harling]. They had strong, independent natures, both of them. They knew what they lik...more

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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered-- about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she h...more

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Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like ...more

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He used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, t...more