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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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..."
"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
"I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book."
Explore more quotes by Oscar Wilde
"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
"I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets."
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
"Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also."
"But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."
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