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Quotes from New Grub Street: A Novel — George Gissing

1857–1903 England

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I maintain that we people of brains are justified in supplying the mob with the food it likes.

New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)

I am learning my business. Literature nowadays is a trade.

New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads — that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)

'A man who comes to be hanged,' pursued Jasper, impartially, 'has the satisfaction of knowing that he has brought society to its last resource. He is a man of such fatal importance that nothing will serve against him but the supreme effort of law. In a way, you know, that is success.'

New Grub Street: A Novel (1891)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Gissing (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.