"The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature."
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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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"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
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"How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."
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"The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear."
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"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."
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"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."
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"You have to make it happen."
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"Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others."
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"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity."
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"Literature is the thought of thinking souls."
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"That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely."
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"Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis."
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"Love is a reciprocal torture."
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"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
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"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."
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"The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it."
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"Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God."
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"Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds."
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"Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her."
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