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"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead."
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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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"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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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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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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"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."
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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 atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
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"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."
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"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."
Love
"The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century."
Middle Class
"Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment."
Man
"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
Patriotism
"Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form."
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"When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read."
Hope
"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble."
Humor
"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
Literature
"Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
Age
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