“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.”
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“In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.”
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Jane Austen
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