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"My books are water, those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water."
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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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"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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"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."
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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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"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
Spiritual
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Humor
"You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel."
Experience
"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
Truth
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."
Nature
"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."
Humor
"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read."
Wisdom
"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."
Truth
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
Morality
"The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving."
Politics
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