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    Mary Gaitskill
    “Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”
    Mary Gaitskill

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    “Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
    Carol A. Dingle, Memorable Quotations: W.H. Auden

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    Edmund Burke
    “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
    Edmund Burke

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    William Hazlitt
    “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
    William Hazlitt

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    James Wood
    “Abeunt studia in mores—Pursuits assiduously prosecuted become habits.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. Disraeli.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta—Outward acts betray the secret intention. L. Max.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. Bulwer.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment. La Roche.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “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.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “A l'œuvre on connaît l'artisan—By the work one knows the workman. La Font.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure. Chamfort.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “A man's fate is his own temper. Disraeli. A man's friends belong no more to him than 60he to them. Schopenhauer.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “Ambos oder Hammer—One must be either anvil or hammer. Ger. Pr.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources

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    James Wood
    “Friends are proved by adversity.”
    James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources



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