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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 28th, 1913

Died: December 2nd, 1995

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