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"All good Literature rests primarily on insight."
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"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
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"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
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"Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold."
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"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
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"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
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"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
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"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
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"I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets."
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"This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power."
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"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
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"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
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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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"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."
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"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
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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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"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."
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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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"In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable."
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"A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet."
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"The only cure for grief is action."
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