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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is 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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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."
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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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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"In true prose everything must be underlined."
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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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"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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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
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"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house."
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"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
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"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue."
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"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."
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"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
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