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Yet though sorrow for the past could be quenched, dread of the future could not.

It's raining women's voices as if they had died even in memory, and it's raining you as well- Marvellous encounters of my life (o little drops!)

f it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.

For a while, it was as poisonous and wrenching as it had been since the day it happened, as intolerable: a crime against nature. Then the grief went back to sleep in my body.

my editor John Homans

Daring to think that the rules do not apply is the mark of a visionary. It's also a symptom of narcissism

In writing you can always change the ending or delete a chapter that isn't working. Life is uncooperative, impartial, incontestable.

Shakespeare wrote sculduddery because he liked it, and for no other reason; his sensuality is the measure of his vitality.

In the first half of the play he is the anti-heroic and burlesque figure long familiar in comedy and satyr drama.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Comedy, as we said, is an imitation of people of a lower sort, though not in respect to every vice; rather, what is ridiculous is part of what is ugly.

The Ethics of Aristotle is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the philosophy of human affairs; but more frequently Political or Social Science.

Rhetoric then may be defined as the faculty of discovering the possible means of persuasion in reference to any subject whatever.

Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us.

A well constructed plot should, therefore, be single in its issue, rather than double as some maintain. The change of fortune should be not from bad to good, but, reversely, from good to bad.

the good of the individual by himself is certainly desirable enough, but that of a nation and of cities is nobler and more divine.

The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times anywhere else.

The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times anywhere else. There

Small world, huh?" She grinned lewdly. "Not particularly. I'd say you've just run out of material.

The landlady was a fiftyish woman in a plum-colored kimono.

Don't change the subject while I'm quoting Tennyson.