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"I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination."
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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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"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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"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."
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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
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"I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book."
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
History
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Life
"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
Life
"Deep experience is never peaceful."
Experience
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
Man
"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."
Money
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Life
"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Life
"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."
People
"What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form."
Philosophy
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