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Science fiction writer Ursula Le Guinn writes: "I was raised as irreligious as a jackrabbit, and probably this is one reason Mark Twain made so much sense to me."
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She asks, "Could anybody but Mark Twain have told the story of Adam and Eve without mentioning Jehovah."
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James Joyces response to complaints about his use of vulgar language is this ": This race and this life produced me--I shall express myself as I am."
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Henry James: The Private Universe is the title of an article written by Graham Greene.
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Writing about the conclusion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Toni Morrison wonders, "Will that undefined space, so falsely imagined as "open," be free of social chaos, personal morbidity, and further moral complications embedded in adulthood and citizenship?"
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An early view of the novel Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis concludes with the following assessment: Artistically, Arrowsmith is an authentic step forward. The novel is full of passages of a quite noble felicity and the old skill in presenting character through dialogue never fails. Babbitt is generic or he is nothing (Stewart 36)
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Hal Holbrook says that "he wasnt aware of Mark Twains potential for social commentary until he was in Little Rock in 1957."
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In Roughing It, Mark Twain has this to say about the fate of the thousands of young men who came to Virginia City seeking gold "all gone, or nearly all--victims devoted upon the altar of the golden calf."
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According to an early review of D.H. Lawrences novel Sons and Lovers, "The book is full of short, vivid descriptions: 'The steep swoop of highroad lay in its cool morning dust . . ."
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"Art itself," Conrad wrote "may be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe."
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What a brilliant prediction, "Proust will never be a widely read writer."
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"Here again is Kiplings old dictum that "East is East and West is West."
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According to Donald Adams, Light in August is a powerful novel, a book which secures Mr. Faulkners place in the very first rank of American Fiction writers."
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Is the following quotation about James Joyces Ulysses an elitist remark: "The average intelligent reader will glean little or nothing from it."?
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