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"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
"There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of guilt, these phenomena are conveyed in Austen in a way that affords us bursts of almost magical self-recognition. The author has located words to depict a situation we thought ourselves alone in feeling, and for a few moments, we see ourselves more clearly and wish to become whom the author would have wanted us to be."
"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins."
"The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten."
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
"I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."
"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
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