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"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."
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"I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old."
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"But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it."
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"The novel is born not of the theoretical spirit but of the spirit of humor."
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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."
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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
Happiness
"The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters."
Death
"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."
Memory
"People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all."
Perception
"A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea."
Creativity
"Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?"
Relationship
"Optimism is the opium of the people."
People
"How goodness heightens beauty!"
Beauty
"A man is responsible for his ignorance."
Responsibility
"(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations."
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