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Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians…
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No…
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the…
If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions…
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon…
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one,
I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it…
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.
While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is,…
The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks…

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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Peter De Vries
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where… — Paul Auster
Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible… — Arthur David Beaty
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened… — Italo Calvino
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. — Jane Smiley
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every… — Jose Emilio Pacheco
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges
The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time… — Rose Tremain
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going. — Penelope Lively

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