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I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed m...

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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...

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If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows an...

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Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the dispo...

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All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old...

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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only ...

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Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only ...

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On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law

I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me ...

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I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really abou...

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This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades no...

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If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians...

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