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Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.
George Henry Lewes
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George Henry Lewes
Age: 61 †
Born: 1817
Born: April 18
Died: 1878
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Theatre Critic
Writer
London
England
Except
Rare
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Distinction
Thoughts
Points
Cases
Turning
Style
Gain
Thinkers
Race
Secure
Dynamic
History
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Thinker
Great
Writers
Immortality
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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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The history of the race is but that of the individual writ large.
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The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
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It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.
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The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
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Science is not addressed to poets.
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There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.
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The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
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Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.
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Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.
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Sincerity is moral truth.
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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
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Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
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Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of placing before the reader intelligible symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer's mind.
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