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"The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible."
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"Literature is analysis after the event."
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"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
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"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."
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"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
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"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
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"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end."
Poverty
"There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
Heart
"There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."
Change
"Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for."
Hope
"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
Learning
"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."
History
"They who drink beer will think beer."
Influence
"The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use."
Wisdom
"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."
Nature
"There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard."
Love
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