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Natalie Clifford Barney
: Novels are longer than life.
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
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Natalie Clifford Barney :
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Novels are longer than life.
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Andre Maurois :
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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Henry James :
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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Joseph Conrad :
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
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Yi-Fu Tuan :
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In contrast to the flux and muddle of life, art is clarity and enduring presence. In the stream of life, few things are perceived clearly because few things stay put. Every mood or emotion is mixed or diluted by contrary and extraneous elements. The clarity of art—the precise evocation of mood in the novel, or of summer twilight in a painting—is like waking to a bright landscape after a long fitful slumber, or the fragrance of chicken soup after a week of head cold.
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Oscar Wilde :
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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Gore Vidal :
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Flannery O Connor :
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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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Tom Stoppard :
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I never got used to the way the house Trots fell into the jargon back in Grimsby — I mean, on any other subject, like the death of the novel, or the sex life of the editor's secretary, they spoke ordinary English, but as soon as they started trying to get me to join the strike it was as if their brains had been taken out and replaced by one of those little golf-ball things you get in electric typewriters... "Betrayal"... "Confrontation"... "Management"... My God, you'd need a more supple language than that to describe an argument between two amoebas.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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Eternity -- waste of time.
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Natalie Clifford Barney:
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Novels are longer than life.
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We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
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Natalie Clifford Barney:
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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