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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Art Ashamed Author Belief
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Get Ideas Me
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

However Inevitably Inexperienced Influences
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Age Book Depends Experience
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Down Feel Help Hoping
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Fact Full Future Notion
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Common Love Occasional Passion
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few Genius Offended People
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Easy Fake Inner Nothing
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Comprehend Eye Mind Only
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Authors Because Cats Creatures
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Believe Gift Gives Greatest
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Mere Opera World
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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Forever Gallery Never Playing
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Again Age Book Building
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Because Become Circumstances Extraordinary
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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

Been Did Die Lucky
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Call Happen Inner Luck
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Humor Lies Love Much
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Childhood Happy Life Many
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Adventures Canada Encouraged Large
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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Also Difficult Himself His
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Characteristics Combine Dope Fiend
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Attacked Dog Every Fewer
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Banker Between Canada Country
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Communal Defend Doctrine Every
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No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
English Feel Make People
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Achievements Been Before Century
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I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Absolutely Am American AmericanWay
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In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Become Clear Everyone Greater
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Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Because Believe Big BigEvent
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What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

About Conservative Declaration Full
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Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

Course End Fed Just
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1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
Amendment Gave Good Income
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Every man Succeeded Effort Divinity
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Thank God Cheerful Happy stock
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

An anarchist Politics Impressionist
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Young men Passion Elders
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Tell you Truth Trinity Accept
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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Man Swallow Belief Digest
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Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics Have Systematic Organization
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Science Existence Mankind Power
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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Man Politics Honestly
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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Life Moments Truly Have done
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To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Love abundantly Forever Live
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I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Wonder Kinder World Needs
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You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

You People Influence Believe
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You will find as you look upon your life that the moments that you truly live are the moments you have done things in the spirit of love

Your life Moments Truly live
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Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Happiness Giving Serving others
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... it takes a smart fella to say 'I don't know the answer!

Takes Smart fella Answer
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