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Stories Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- NOVEL, n. A short story padded...
- PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.
- A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long…
- STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
- READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and…
- REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story…
- SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.
- READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and…
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