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"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."
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"We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet."
Challenge
"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
Work
"It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off."
People
"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"
American
"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
Literature
"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
Marriage
"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."
Life
"Common sense often makes good law."
Common sense
"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."
Nixon
"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."
Wisdom
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