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On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

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You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.

Cities, Down, Fall, Please, Remote, Writing
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Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

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If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

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For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.

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If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

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The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

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