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- To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
- Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the…
- I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
- Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.
- It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me;…
- To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to…
- The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
- But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes;…
- Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
- Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an…
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that…
- Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There…
- That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
- ...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon…
- Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming…
- By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or…
- Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
- Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from…
- I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run…
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