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" Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. "

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" 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 poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. "

" One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. "

" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "

" For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? "

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

" To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. "

" One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. "

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

" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "

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

" We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. "

" This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. "

" Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. "

" Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. "

" Language is wine upon the lips. "

" It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. "

" 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. "

" It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. "

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" The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. "

" There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. "

" The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. "

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

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" Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. "

" This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. "