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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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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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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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"In true prose everything must be underlined."
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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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"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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"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
Fool
"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."
Men
"Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same."
May
"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."
Wealth
"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."
Man
"Reason is not what decides love."
Love
"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."
Heart
"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
Nothing
"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
Folk
"Books and marriage go ill together."
Marriage
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