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"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
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"Literature is analysis after the event."
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"A book is as private and consensual as sex."
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"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
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"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy."
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"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
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"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."
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"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
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"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
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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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"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."
Art
"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Creativity
"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
Education
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Power
"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
Ability
"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
Literature
"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."
Art
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Education
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