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He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.

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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

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I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.

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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than w...more

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The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly...more

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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

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How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

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It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse; the name of the poet, Hafiz, Hali, Iq...more

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How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only re...more

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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.