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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 think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."
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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
Hope
"When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is."
Psychology
"He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was."
Psychology
"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."
Education
"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
Faith
"Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer."
Knowledge
"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
Nature
"He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go."
Motivational
"A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is."
Life
"The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope."
Adventure
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