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" A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. "

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" There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. "

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" If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? "

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" Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. "

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" Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. "

" Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. "

" I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. "

" These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. "

" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. "

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" Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. "

" Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. "

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