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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than else

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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it -this cl

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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

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The fatal futility of Fact.

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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

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Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

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Deep experience is never peaceful.

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I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

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