#dickens

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If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.


Charles Dickens


#david-copperfield #dora #love #love

…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent appetizing charm of their villains.


Mary MacLane


#biography

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.


Jane Birkin


#because #chuckle #dickens #earthly #i

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.


Shelby Foote


#dickens #everything #faulkner #how #john

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.


Charles Dickens


#love #our-mutual-friend #change

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.


Ben Okri


#dickens #home #i #literature #london

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.


George Saintsbury


#class #dickens #earlier #few #first

All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.


Vladimir Nabokov


#art

Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories!


A.B. Guthrie


#childhood-memory #childhood-stories #dickens #interview-transcription #kipling

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.


Charles Dickens


#great-expectations #change