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"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
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"My life transformed by making myself a reader."

"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."

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"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."

"Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as if it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."

"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."

"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."

"Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world."
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