I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
タグ: writing, storytelling, on-fiction, inspirational, fiction

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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
タグ: wild, mystery, house, me
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
タグ: against, where, flame, i-am
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
タグ: books
The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
タグ: words, reading, literature, knowledge, books
Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.
タグ: relationships, men-and-women, differences-in-men-and-women
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