“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.