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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
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Explore more quotes by George Henry Lewes
"Science is not addressed to poets."
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"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."
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"In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable."
Thought
"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
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"Sincerity is moral truth."
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"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
Proof
"The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised."
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"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
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"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."
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"The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse."
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