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"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."
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"Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first."
"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."
"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."
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"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."
"You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good."
"A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life."
"Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness."
"I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias."
"And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek."
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