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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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"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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"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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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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"A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated-as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man."
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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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Explore more quotes by Rabindranath Tagore

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."
Integrity

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
Success

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
Wisdom

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
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"Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it."
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"Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law."
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"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
Nature

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
Time

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
Happiness

"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest."
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