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- Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable…
- It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,…
- Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to…
- Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write…
- The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
- Only longing can fill with more of itself.
- No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.
- But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It…
- You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that…
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
- Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
- I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the…
- For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and…
- I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
- Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
- To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and…
- Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected…
- Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine…
- Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world…
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the…
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