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Prose Quotes

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"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
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"I'm a better polemicist in prose."
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"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"In true prose everything must be underlined."
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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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