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Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.

Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put....

Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult,....

I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything....

As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach,....

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.....

How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their....

I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after....

[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping....

Either I shall find it, or I shall not find it. I examine my note-case. I look in all my pockets. These....