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Have the courage of your desire.
George Gissing / Novelist
Courage
Success
Bravery
Desire
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For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
George Gissing / Novelist
Book
Lovers
Scent
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Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
George Gissing / Novelist
Hopeless
Intellectual
Vices
Vice
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Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.
George Gissing / Novelist
Cities
Growth
Pavement
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London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.
George Gissing / Novelist
Hotel
London
Shops
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To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
George Gissing / Novelist
Order
People
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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
George Gissing / Novelist
Calamity
Events
Familiar
Persistent
Prophecy
Way
Assuring
Event
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No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
George Gissing / Novelist
Should
Thinking
Young
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I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
George Gissing / Novelist
Happiness
Passing Moments
Passings
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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.
George Gissing / Novelist
Adapting
Creatures
Humans
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Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.
George Gissing / Novelist
Drinking
Leisure
Tea
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing / Novelist
Bitter
Bitterness
Curse
Generous
Poverty
Curses
Leaves
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Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.
George Gissing / Novelist
Acceptance
Compassion
Often Is
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Gissing / Novelist
Money
Time
Truth
Time Is Money
Turns
Time Truth Money
Around
Truth Time Money
Precious
Proverb
Says
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A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.
George Gissing / Novelist
Cigar
Hours
Vacuity
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The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.
George Gissing / Novelist
Calm
Growing
Mind
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing / Novelist
Book
Reading
Smell
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
George Gissing / Novelist
Capacity
Tests
Understanding
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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.
George Gissing / Novelist
Farce
Fate
Laughter
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?
George Gissing / Novelist
Christmas
Smile
Branches
Care
Hollies
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Literature nowadays is a trade... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.
George Gissing / Novelist
Men
Successful
Thinking
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It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.
George Gissing / Novelist
Causes
Pain
Speak
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To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.
George Gissing / Novelist
Men
Common
Solitude
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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.
George Gissing / Novelist
Money
Cheerful
Miserable
Use
Time Money Me
Mine
Nay
Otherwise
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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
George Gissing / Novelist
Capacity
Individual
Mankind
Moving
Nations
Stupid
Stupidity
Better Things
Towards
Slowly
Individuals
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .
George Gissing / Novelist
Time
Children
Stress
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People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.
George Gissing / Novelist
People
Prejudice
Writing
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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
George Gissing / Novelist
Excellent
First Time
Time Work Me
Work Time Me
Gained
Meeting
Old One
Resembles
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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
George Gissing / Novelist
Beauty
Courage
Men
Bad Weather
Blood
Mind
Pulse
Serene
Sound
Weather
More
Thing
Make
Bad
Every
Day
Every Day
Storms
Which
Whip
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I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!
George Gissing / Novelist
Food
Hate
Names
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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.
George Gissing / Novelist
Truth
Honesty
Soul
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I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
George Gissing / Novelist
Men
Being Single
Being Yourself
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It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George Gissing / Novelist
Love
Eye
Heart
Touched
Beheld
Creates
Emotions
Eyes
Meadow
Stir
Yours
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the mere chink of cups and saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.
George Gissing / Novelist
Food
Cooking
Grandmother
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And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?
George Gissing / Novelist
Men
Nurse
Writing
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
George Gissing / Novelist
Heart
Long
Winter
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I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.
George Gissing / Novelist
Men
Hate
Heart
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.
George Gissing / Novelist
Christmas
Smile
Heart
Hollies
Yield
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One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!
George Gissing / Novelist
Doors
Rain
Shining
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This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
George Gissing / Novelist
War
Mean
Writing
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How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin! To make a trade of an art! I am rightly served for attempting such a brutal folly.
George Gissing / Novelist
Art
Morning
Mean
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