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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

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Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without ge...more

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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Books are for nothing but to inspire

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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.

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Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?