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"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
"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."
"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
"These fragments I have shored against my ruins."
"The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten."
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
"I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific."
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"A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer."
"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."
"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."
"A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it."
"I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy."
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