"Books and harlots have their quarrels in public."

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Geoffrey Wood, American Author

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"Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room."

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"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."

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"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."

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"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."

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"Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know."

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"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."

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"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."

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"All disgust is originally disgust at touching."

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"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."

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