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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!
Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)
She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.
In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.
Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.
It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.
Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.
One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.