Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes is as a revealing habit of speech, and the point at which its iteration begin to weary him. Mary Lascelles
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
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Amit Kalantri
Be a worthy worker and work will come.
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Amit Kalantri
Great losses are great lessons.
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Amit Kalantri
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.
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Siri Hustvedt
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
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Jacques Derrida
More Quotes By Mary Lascelles
Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.
When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will...
A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.
A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.
The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must often be the visual imagination, bringing before his eyes a...
