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"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
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"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
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"Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold."
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"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
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"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
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"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
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"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
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"I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets."
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"This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power."
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"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
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"The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have."
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"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."
Love
"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."
Success
"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
News
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
Literature
"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."
Friendship
"One must be a living man and a posthumous artist."
Art
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
Death
"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
Success
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
Commonplace
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
Habit
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