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"Bad literature is a form of treason."
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"Literature is analysis after the event."
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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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"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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"Books require titles reading them doesn't."
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"Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath:The horror! The horror!"
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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."
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"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."
Life
"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."
Language
"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
Reading
"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
Poetry
"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."
Change
"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."
Friendship
"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
History
"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."
Life
"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."
Language
"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
Life
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