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"What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
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"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."
Relationship
"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."
Literature
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
Man
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Man
"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
War
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
Time
"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."
Love
"War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent."
War
"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
Age
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