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"All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization."
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"The things you were talking about. The lights and the flowers. Do they expect those things to make them romantic, not the other way around? "Darling, what do you mean? "There wasn't a person there who enjoyed it," she said, her voice lifeless, "or who thought or felt anything at all. They moved about, and they said the same dull things they say anywhere. I suppose they thought the lights would make it brilliant."Darling, you take everything too seriously. One is not supposed to be intellectual at a ball. One is simply supposed to be gay." How? By being stupid?"
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"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"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."
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"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."
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"I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all."
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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
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"It is not all books that are as dull as their readers."
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"Good novel are written by people who are not frightened."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."
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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Mankind
"I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."
Wisdom
"(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours."
Life
"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."
Nature
"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"
Love
"One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man."
Relationship
"Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man."
Fantasy
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
Failure
"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."
Family
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