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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is…
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...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the…
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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my…
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and…
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Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia…
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words…
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Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.
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The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and…
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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for…
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I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by…
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