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"Literature is news that stays news."
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
Music
"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
Trust
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
Truth
"Wars are made to make debt."
Debt
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
Civilization
"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
Art
"No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job."
Job
"The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism."
Mistake
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
Music
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
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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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"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."
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"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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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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"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
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"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."
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