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"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."
"How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?"
"A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue."
"It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region."
"Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?"
"A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys."
"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
"In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires."
"Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins."
"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."
"I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other."
"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
"I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting."
"Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?"
"When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble."
"An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions."
"I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome."
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."