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"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
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"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
People
"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
Man
"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
Fire
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
People
"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
War
"There is nothing permanent except change."
Change
"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
Control
"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."
God
"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
Soul
"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
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"Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehensible, while experience just steamrollers over you and you understand what happened decades later, if ever."
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"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
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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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"Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature."
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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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"If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up."
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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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"A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."
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"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
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