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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

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Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what…
Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But…
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to…
You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects…
Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and…
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his…
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
There are so many things that we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that…
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter
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