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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
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For a good man fame is always a problem.
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Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncan’s death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
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Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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It’s a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.
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American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.
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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
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There is a splinter of ice in the heart of a writer.

A Sort of Life (1971)

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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

The Heart of the Matter (1948)

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