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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"In true prose everything must be underlined."
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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."
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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
Money
"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue."
Virtue
"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
Love
"It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh."
People
"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."
Life
"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."
Work
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
Prose
"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."
Thinking
"I live on good soup, not on fine words."
Word
"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
Compromise
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