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“Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.”
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“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
― Absalom and Achitophel
― Absalom and Achitophel
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical exasperation, would use the word of him without stopping to think. They feel that Dickens is a great writer even if he is not a good writer.”
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“But these vague whisperings may arise from Mr. Snagsby's being, in his way, rather a meditative and poetical man; loving to walk in Staple Inn in the summer time; and to observe how countrified the sparrows and the leaves are... and to remark (if in good spirits) that there were old times once, and that you'd find a stone coffin or two, now, under that chapel, he'd be bound, if you was to dig for it.”
― Bleak House
― Bleak House
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