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"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal."
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"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."
Decision-Making
"The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair."
Despair
"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal."
Literature
"True solidarity is only possible among the solitary."
Solitude
"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."
Music
"The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst."
Time
"Theology is the logic of the Devil."
Devil
"Happiness is always a coincidence."
Happiness
"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."
Crime
"When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything."
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"Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehensible, while experience just steamrollers over you and you understand what happened decades later, if ever."
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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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