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Imagination, which is a quali...

Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.

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The sky was a midnight-blue, ...

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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There was nothing but land; n...

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

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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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[Dawn] is always such a forgi...

[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.

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It has long been a tradition ...

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.

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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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I wanted to walk straight on ...

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.

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Life began for me, when I cea...

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

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This is reality, whether you ...

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

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Sometimes," I ventured, "it d...

Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.

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I like trees because they see...

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

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On the farm the weather was t...

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

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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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The summer moon hung full in ...

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

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