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"Literature is analysis after the event."
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"A book is as private and consensual as sex."
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"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
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"I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing."
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"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
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"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."
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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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"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
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"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
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"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."
Fun
"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"
Question
"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
Commonsense
"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
History
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."
Science
"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."
Religion
"Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal."
Time
"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."
Advice
"Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens."
Woman
"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
Art
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