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“Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.”

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I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

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What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

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There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another…

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The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which…

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