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"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
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"Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold."
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"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
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"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
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"This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power."
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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"No, said Bran. "I haven't. And if I have it doesn't matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."
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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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"Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
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"For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something - distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world - but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before."
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"Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless."
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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion
"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
Car
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
Reflection
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love
"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family
"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
Time
"A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception."
Care
"The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
Gender
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
Old
"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
Virtue
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