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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 28th, 1913

Died: December 2nd, 1995

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