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“Literary works are not democracies. We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. We may, but the country of Novels, Etc., doesn't. In that faraway place, no character is created equal. One or two of them get all the breaks; the rest exist to get them to the finish line.”

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Book:How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What results can sometimes be as much our creation as the novelist's or playwright's.”

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Book:How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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