Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.Ellen Glasgow
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
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He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted -- and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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