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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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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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"She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened."
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"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
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"A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation."
Life
"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."
Emotional
"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."
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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
Literature
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
Opinion
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
Business
"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."
Politics
"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."
Cause
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
Character
"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
Business
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