I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. - Henry James

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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Henry James

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Hold, Literature, Love, Sufficiently, Writing

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Friendship, Human, Inspirational, Life, Things

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

Half, Incapable, Kills, Life, Way To Live

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Imagined, Inspirational, Life, Living, Positive

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

Autumn, Beautiful, Dusky, Everything, Fall, Solitary

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

Art, Criticism, Good, Question, World

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Gordon Allport

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

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Thomas Carlyle

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Actually, Despair, Men, Work, Works

Jim Woodring

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

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Agnes Varda

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

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Kami Garcia

It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

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