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What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

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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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The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty.

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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

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If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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

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Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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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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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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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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God doesn't know things. He is things.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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