Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The bent twig (1915)

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I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that — and it's true.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Mrs. Marshall-Smith, continuing steadily to talk (on the theory that talking prevents too great concentration of thought), and making the round of all the possible things to say.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

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The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

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Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.

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There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
You are dipped up from the great river of consciousness, and death only pours you back.

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Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

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One reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

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