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and in that one moment, with the sunlight from the window shining in on him, the apples on the kitchen counter, the smell of wood and ocean in the air -- I did call it love.

It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen . My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity—how ill they sit on the face, say, of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

but it seemed iniquitous that anyone should mispronounce the name of the man who was more to him than all the world

Besides nature is a theater of secondary importance compared with world history.

Is there some esoteric meaning behind the titles?

troubled to the extreme limit of trouble by his radiant face and by the damnation for all souls which shone from it

eyes were closed again. Apparently she didn't find dragon flight as exciting

There had been no dancing Care Bears blasting belly rainbows in Fat Angie's dreams either. But were Care Bears a symbol of gay-girl gay?

A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood—a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.

Oh, Mr Hall, what an ungallant remark. Look at her lovely hair.' 'I like short hair best.' 'Why?' 'Because I can stroke it-' and he began to cry.

Epilogues are for Tolstoy

I think he is nice and tiresome. I differ from him on almost every point of any importance, and so, I expect - I may say I hope - you will differ. But his is a type one disagrees with rather than deplores. When he first came here he not unnaturally put people's backs up. He has no tact and no manners - I don't mean by that that he has bad manners - and he will not keep his opinions to himself

He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

The story that is a story and sounded so healthy and stood no nonsense cannot sincerely lead to any conclusion but the grave.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She

I love folklore and all festering superstitions.

How annoyed I am with Society for wasting my time by making homosexuality criminal. The subterfuges, the self-consciousness that might have been avoided

A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise.