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"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
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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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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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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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"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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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
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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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"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."
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"Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over."
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"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
Cultural
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Freedom
"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
Life
"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Work
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
History
"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
Time
"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
Man
"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
Life
"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
Truth
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
Religion
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