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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last…
— Jules de Goncourt
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To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the…
— George Plimpton
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The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
— Brenda Ueland
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The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
— Jack Kerouac
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Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke…
— E. M. Forster
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If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the…
— Pearl S. Buck
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My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
— Amy Bloom
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