"I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now."
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"This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces."
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"The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people."
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"Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed."
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"So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday."
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"Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody."
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"From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why."
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"If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry"
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"If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be."
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"Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table."
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"Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting."
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"Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones."
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"William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke."
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"Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding."
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"A watch is the most essential part of a lecture."
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"The prayers of all good people are good."
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""More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent."
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"I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before."
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"An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry."
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"It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain."
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