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There is only one class in th...

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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I have a dining room done in ...

I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my me...

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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If a work of art is rich and ...

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

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Literature must rest always o...

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

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While we look to the dramatis...

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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There's nothing in the world ...

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

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In its primary aspect, a pain...

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

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Romantic art deals with the e...

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

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'The Lady's World' should be ...

'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

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In modern life nothing produc...

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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Perhaps one of the most diffi...

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dang...

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

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Romance should never begin wi...

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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How marriage ruins a man! It ...

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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Art should never try to be po...

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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In England, an inventor is re...

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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The function of the artist is...

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

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The spirit of an age may be b...

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

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There is no such thing as a m...

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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