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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Ye are better than all the balladsThat ever were sung or said;For ye are living poems,And all the rest are dead."

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"Ye are better than all the balladsThat ever were sung or said;For ye are living poems,And all the rest are dead."

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Donna Grant

"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."

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Donna Grant

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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Donna Grant

"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."

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Donna Grant

"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."

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Donna Grant

"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."

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Donna Grant

"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."

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Donna Grant

"In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the book of him who has travelled the farthest over the surface of the globe, but of him who has lived the deepest and been the most at home."

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Donna Grant

"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."

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Donna Grant

"The burning point of paper was the moment where I knew that I would have to remember this. Because people would have to remember books, if other people burn them or forget them. We will commit them to memory. We will be come them. We become authors. We become their books."

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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Be noble in every thought And in every deed!"

Morality

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."

Books

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

Time

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."

Life

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

Love

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."

Passion

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

Grief

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Into each life some rain must fall."

Life

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The present is the blocks with which we build."

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

Success

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