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"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
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"Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold."
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"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
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"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
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"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
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"I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets."
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"This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power."
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"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
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"The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have."
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"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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"No, said Bran. "I haven't. And if I have it doesn't matter. Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time."
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"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
Fault
"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them."
Change
"Ability is sexless."
Ability
"Growth is the only evidence of life."
Life
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
Corruption
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning."
Life
"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
Literature
"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."
Thought
"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."
Gentleman
"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."
Men
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