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“The public wants work which flatters its illusions.”

Quote by Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert, born on December 12, 1821 and died on May 8, 1880, was a prominent French writer of the 19th century. Known for his exquisite literary skills and profound psychological portrayals, Flaubert is best remembered for his masterpiece 'Madame Bovary'. more

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“Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those feelings are true, and let everything else go hang. When a line is good it ceases to belong to any school. A line of prose must be as immutable as a line of poetry.”

Writing Art Stories Feelings School Beautiful Lines Depends Cease Prose Execution

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Poetry makes nothing happen.”

Author:W. H. Auden

“Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.”

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Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.”

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Book:High Noon

Source: High Noon

“The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.”

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Book:High Noon

Source: High Noon

“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

Source: The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering

“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?”

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Author:May Sarton

“One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?”

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Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“It’s true, isn’t it? Then what else really matters?”

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.”

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Book:A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike

Source: A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike