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You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

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Carl Clinton Van Doren

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Broken, Discovery, Older, Pleased, Sects, Two
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Conformity, Men, Race, Sheep, Wolves

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

Hard, Harder, Writing, Yes

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Brought, Details, Historical, Idealized, Remote, Teach

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Anthologies, Firsts, Long, Nowhere, Rest, Running

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

Born, Cabin, Limits, Sympathy, Uncles, Years
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