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“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
― Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
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“I try all things, I achieve what I can.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”
― The Sign of Four
― The Sign of Four
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Time Regained
― Time Regained
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