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"Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue."
Women
"The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work."
Work
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
Writing
"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."
Writing
"The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning--at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity."
Writing
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