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I am looking over Self Control again, & my opinion is
confirmed of its being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written
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You are now collecting your People delightfully, getting them
exactly into such as spot as is the delight of my life; M3 or 4
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I wish you would not let him plunge into a ôvortex of
Dissipation.ö I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the
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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the perf ...
"It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, ...
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the ...
An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits ...
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. I ...
The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it ...
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