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A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
Anthony Trollope
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Anthony Trollope
Age: 67 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 24
Died: 1882
Died: December 6
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No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
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Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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There was but one thing for him- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.
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He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.
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We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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I think I owe my life to cork soles.
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There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.
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Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.
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