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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
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"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."
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