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““A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression””

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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

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“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

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“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but…

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“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by…

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“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,…

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“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had…

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I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.

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“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing…

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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.

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If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

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“She answered that she liked standing up and”

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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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