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Nearly all the Escapists in th...

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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The land belongs to the future...

The land belongs to the future.

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Art, it seems to me, should si...

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

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The world is little, people ar...

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

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Our tree became the talking tr...

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

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The sky was a midnight-blue, l...

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

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Life was so short that it mean...

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

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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.

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Miracles surround us at every ...

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

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An artist's saddest secrets ar...

An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

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In this world people have to p...

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

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When people ask me if it has b...

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

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Today I stood taller from walk...

Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

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The trouble is you almost have...

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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When the eyes of the flesh are...

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

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Too much detail is apt, like a...

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

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There is often a good deal of ...

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

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Your vivid, exciting companion...

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

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The heart, when it is too much...

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

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The air was cool enough to mak...

The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

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