People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.
Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?
We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.
Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.