"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
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"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."
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"Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed"
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"Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents."
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"This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature."
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"Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble."
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"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John."
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"Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."
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"We may divide characters into flat and round."
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"English literature is a flying fish."
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"I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't."
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"Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it."
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"The thing we fear we bring to pass."
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"What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements."
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"I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject."
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"Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!"
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"I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on."
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"A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10 favorite books. I have to go out of my way to remember to pick up a book like that, but when I do I'm blown away by how very relevant it still is."
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"It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead."
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"The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?"
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