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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.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
