"No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is."
"I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers."
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Source: Jan Neruda (1996). “Prague Tales”, A Central European University Press Book
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