"Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist."

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Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.234, tredition

George Saintsbury

#Missing Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Dirt is matter in the wrong place.”
“Solidarity, compassion, caring, communion and loving. Such values and inner powers can lay the foundation of a new paradigm of civilization, the civilization of the humanity reunited in the Common House, on the Planet Earth our mission is to celebrate the greatness of Creation and connect it again to the Core where it came from and to where it will go, with care, lightness, joy, reverence and love.”
“Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.”

Source : "The forgotten winners Sir Alex Ferguson left behind" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2011.
“I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.”
“I have spent a good many years sinceâ€•too many, I thinkâ€•being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
“And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.”
“Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.”
“The big thing is I try not to repeat.”

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