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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism ...more

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.

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I'm too old to know everything

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accu...more

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any ...more

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthu...more

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.