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“It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here. ”
― A Pale View of Hills
― A Pale View of Hills
“Like many weak men, he made a great ceremony of personal strength and power.”
― Debt of Honor
― Debt of Honor
“I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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