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"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
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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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"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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"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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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."
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"The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there."
Perception
"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
Woman
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt."
Wisdom
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Wisdom
"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
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"Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!"
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"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."
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"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
Unity
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