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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order read more
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
Words of love, are works of love.
Words of love, are works of love.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the read more
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
