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I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, i...more

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It’s very silly,” she said, “but I go on with it in spite of myself. I’m afraid I’m too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can’t read it.

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Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

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When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back t...more

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She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.