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"He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it."
Literature
"But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents."
War
"Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it."
Peace
"Rise above principle and do what's right."
Morality
"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
Trouble
"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."
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"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry."
Government
"Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about."
Literature
"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."
People
"I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any."
Time
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