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With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. РAndr̩ Gide

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

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