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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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In literature imitations do not imitate.

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Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

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