"A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography."
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"In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly."
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"He would take the blow so you didn't have to."
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"bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin."
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"Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas."
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"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."
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"...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding."
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"It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history."
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"Madame Bovary is myself."
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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
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"The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support."
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"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being."
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"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?"
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"Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own."
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"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."
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"In literature imitations do not imitate."
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"I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest."
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"Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp."
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"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants."
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"To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform."
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