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“All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All chance, direction which thou canst not see. / All discord, harmony not understood; / All partial evil, universal good. Pope.”
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
― Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
“We must proceed on the assumption that almost all prose popularly acclaimed as beautiful ('she writes like an angel') is nothing of the sort, that almost every novelist will at some point be baselessly acclaimed for writing 'beautifully' as almost all flowers are at some point acclaimed for smelling nice.”
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“But this will be unceasingly difficult: for the writer has to act as if the available novelistic methods are continuously about to turn into mere convention and so has to try to outwit that inevitable aging. Chekhov's challenge--'Ibsen just doesn't know life. In life it simply isn't like that'--is as radical now as it was a century ago, because forms must continually be broken. The true writer that free servant of life, is one who must always be acting as if life were a category beyond anything the novel had yet grasped; as if life itself were always on the verge of becoming conventional.”
― How Fiction Works [Deckle Edge] Reprint edition
― How Fiction Works [Deckle Edge] Reprint edition
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