The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the…

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A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

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The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed…

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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

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The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its…

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On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively.…

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Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to…

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