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"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
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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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"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form."
Courage
"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."
Nothing
"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
Literature
"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
Patriotism
"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."
Winter
"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble."
Humor
"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
Literature
"Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment."
Man
"When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
Fascism
"The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century."
Middle Class
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