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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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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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"I'm a better polemicist in 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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"In true prose everything must be underlined."
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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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"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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"Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing."
Nothing
"He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure."
Peace
"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
Folk
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
Money
"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."
Thinking
"To marry a fool is to be no fool."
Fool
"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
Public
"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."
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"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
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