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Love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.
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For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
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The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.
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In any work that is truly creative, I believe, the writer cannot be omniscient in advance about the effects that he proposes to produce. The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.
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Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.
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The souped-up novels that are being written today, with injections of myth and symbols to heighten or deepen the material, are simply evasions and forms of self-flattery.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
June 21, 1912
Died:
October 25, 1989
(aged 77)
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