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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"In true prose everything must be underlined."
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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."
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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."
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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
Appearance
"It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with it."
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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
Thought
"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
Heart
"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
Freedom
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
Beauty
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