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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,…

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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…
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain
Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A jug fills drop by drop. — Gautama Buddha
Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the… — Glenn Gould
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed… — Roger McGuinn
...after using your stuff on a jug band full of instruments, all I can say is Thank You Dr. Duck !... — John Sebastian
I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of… — Andrew Jackson
People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring… — Sarah Hall
In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle-… — Edward Lear
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a… — Charles Kuralt
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree....… — Pietro Aretino

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