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The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

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[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

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The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write th...more

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[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is about or what may be ...more

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This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want to be clear about that. I am not referring ...more