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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
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"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."
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"We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading."
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"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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"Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic."
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"A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images."
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"She found as always that words on paper proved themselves, they were so beautifully true."
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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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"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
Virtue
"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."
Sense
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
Character
"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."
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"He who hates vice hates men."
Man
"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."
Politics
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
Crime
"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."
Politics
"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
Literature
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
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