AndrÃ© Gide's Quote - What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it

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

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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. – AndrÃ© Gide

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“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – AndrÃ© Gide

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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. – AndrÃ© Gide

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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Every writer I know has trouble writing. – Joseph Heller

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order. – Jean Luc Godard

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