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“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.”
― The Book of Snobs
― The Book of Snobs
“Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.”
― The Common Reader
― The Common Reader
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Essays of Three Decades
― Essays of Three Decades
“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
― The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]”
― The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
“Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.”
― The Book of Snobs
― The Book of Snobs
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