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"Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling."
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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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"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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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"Frustration often steers you to the right path."
Growth
"You won't stress over it unless you care."
Emotion
"Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way."
Creativity
"Not all friends know they have lost you."
Relationship
"A shout for help isn't always a cry of pain, sometimes it is a hymn of praise."
Expression
"Ambition is a stairway that never ends."
Ambition
"Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer."
Language
"If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books."
Learning
"But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do."
Deception
"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
Productivity
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