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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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Personal Development
"There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of guilt, these phenomena are conveyed in Austen in a way that affords us bursts of almost magical self-recognition. The author has located words to depict a situation we thought ourselves alone in feeling, and for a few moments, we see ourselves more clearly and wish to become whom the author would have wanted us to be."
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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
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Personal Development
"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth."You don't seem to agree."I don't know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understandinghow truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person."
Philosophy
"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
Philosophy
"This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed."
Focus
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth
"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."
Environment
"A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health."
Society
"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
Talent
"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
History
"And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?"
Wisdom
"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."
War
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