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In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

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If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

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It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

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Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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