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"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
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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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"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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"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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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
Money
"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective."
Being
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
Space
"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
Literature
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
Dream
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
Fear
"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade."
Writing
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
Humor
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
Movies
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
Environment
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