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I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave Picture Quote #1

One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. and you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal Picture Quote #1

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater Picture Quote #1

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish Picture Quote #1

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer Picture Quote #1

To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser Picture Quote #1

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own Picture Quote #1

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities Picture Quote #1

Children, don't speak so coarsely, said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library Picture Quote #1

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second Picture Quote #1

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so Picture Quote #1

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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour Picture Quote #1

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour Picture Quote #1

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather Picture Quote #1

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thiefs Picture Quote #1

The first week of this month was International Cat Week, and as the cat is, above all animals, the writer's pet, I suppose I should have written something about it. But I do not care about weeks, and every week is a cat week with me Picture Quote #1

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people Picture Quote #1

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It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose Picture Quote #1

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once Picture Quote #1

The young people, who were all Canadians, immediately formed themselves into a committee of the whole, from which they elected a working committee, which discussed the matter for about an hour, though as it was a committee the time seemed to be a year and a day Picture Quote #1

When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter Picture Quote #1

An important aspect of nonconformity was its cult of the bible as the fount of all wisdom. But the bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous Picture Quote #1

When John Ryder, for instance, writes I utter valediction to the author of my being, he means simply that he said goodbye to his mother Picture Quote #1

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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach Picture Quote #1

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing Picture Quote #1

All our affirmations are mere matters of chronology; and even our bad taste is nothing more than the bad taste of the age we live in Picture Quote #1

The vitality of a new movement in art or letters can be pretty accurately gauged by the fury it arouses Picture Quote #1

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds Picture Quote #1

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each other's stories; for it they did not, they would burst Picture Quote #1

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I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave (Ter Quotes) One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. and you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal (Ter Quotes) The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater (Ter Quotes) Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish (Ter Quotes) The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer (Ter Quotes) To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser (Ter Quotes) Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness (Ter Quotes) Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own (Ter Quotes) He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities (Ter Quotes) Children, don't speak so coarsely, said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library (Ter Quotes) There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second (Ter Quotes) Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count upward indefinitely if he is fool enough to do so (Ter Quotes) To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour (Ter Quotes) To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour (Ter Quotes) Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather (Ter Quotes) Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thiefs (Ter Quotes) The first week of this month was International Cat Week, and as the cat is, above all animals, the writer's pet, I suppose I should have written something about it. But I do not care about weeks, and every week is a cat week with me (Ter Quotes) There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people (Ter Quotes) It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose (Ter Quotes) We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once (Ter Quotes) The young people, who were all Canadians, immediately formed themselves into a committee of the whole, from which they elected a working committee, which discussed the matter for about an hour, though as it was a committee the time seemed to be a year and a day (Ter Quotes) When they come downstairs from their ivory towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter (Ter Quotes) An important aspect of nonconformity was its cult of the bible as the fount of all wisdom. But the bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous (Ter Quotes) When John Ryder, for instance, writes I utter valediction to the author of my being, he means simply that he said goodbye to his mother (Ter Quotes) What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach (Ter Quotes) To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing (Ter Quotes) All our affirmations are mere matters of chronology; and even our bad taste is nothing more than the bad taste of the age we live in (Ter Quotes) The vitality of a new movement in art or letters can be pretty accurately gauged by the fury it arouses (Ter Quotes) Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds (Ter Quotes) It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each other's stories; for it they did not, they would burst (Ter Quotes)

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