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I have not much faith in wome...

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

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From two ears that had grown ...

From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.

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Most publishers, like most wr...

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

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The trees and shrubbery seeme...

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

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It is easy to pity when once ...

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

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In a few hours one could cove...

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

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Yet the summer which was to c...

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

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If the street life, not the W...

If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

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In little towns, lives roll a...

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

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If we never arrived anywhere,...

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

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Nearly all the Escapists in t...

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

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She had only to stand in the ...

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

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The world is little, people a...

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

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The trouble is you almost hav...

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

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The test of one's decency is ...

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

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Men are all right for friends...

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

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Only solitary men know the fu...

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

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Personal life becomes paler a...

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

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People can be lovers and enem...

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

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There is something frank and ...

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

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