"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
-Henry James
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"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.“
-Henry James
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"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
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"Deep experience is never peaceful."
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"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?"
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"I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
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"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'"
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
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"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
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