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• The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
• The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through…
• I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as…
• It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.
• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or…
• One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be…
• Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
• Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
• I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either…
• If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our…
• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
• Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

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