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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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"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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"And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake."
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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"People happy in love have an air of intensity."
Love
"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."
Happiness
"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."
Age
"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."
Art
"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."
Literature
"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."
Business
"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
Pleasure
"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained."
Life
"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth."
Man
"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."
Character
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