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• Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
• The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being…
• A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed…
• He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
• The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
• The fatal futility of Fact.
• Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
• Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
• In art economy is always beauty.
• That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.
• One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of…
• We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

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