"As I am. As I am. All or not at all."
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"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
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"Tenors get women by the score."
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"Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory."
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"Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies."
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"Places remember events."
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"People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep."
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"Redheaded women buck like goats."
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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
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"There's many a true word spoken in jest."
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"God made food; the devil the cooks."
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"Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined."
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"I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space."
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"The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
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"Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned."
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"You get a decent do at the Brazen Head"
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"What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own."
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"Do you know what a pearl is and what an opal is? My soul when you came sauntering to me first through those sweet summer evenings was beautiful but with the pale passionless beauty of a pearl. Your love has passed through me and now I feel my mind something like an opal, that is, full of strange uncertain hues and colours, of warm lights and quick shadows and of broken music."
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"Sentimentality is unearned emotion."
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"You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence."
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