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"All good Literature rests primarily on insight."
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"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed."
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"Good writers are of necessity rare."
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"All good Literature rests primarily on insight."
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"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
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"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
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"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."
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"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."
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"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols."
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"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
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"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."
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"Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehensible, while experience just steamrollers over you and you understand what happened decades later, if ever."
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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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"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."
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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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"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."
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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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"A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."
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"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
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