"I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is."

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“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”

“The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.”

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“Style…is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.”

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"One of the pleasures of writing novels is that my characters usually do something. But in real life we often stay locked in a situation that we know is painful or wrong."

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