Quote #156
It does not matter that Dicken's world is not lifelike; it is alive.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Charles Dickens
- His eye brings in almost too rich a harvest for him to deal with, and gives him an aloofness and a hardness which freeze his sentimentalism…
- Dickens attacked English institutions with a ferocity that has never since been approached. Yet he managed to do it without making himself …
- When people say Dickens exaggerates, it seems to me they can have no eyes and no ears. They probably have only notions of what things and p…
- Of all the Victorian novelists, he was probably the most antagonistic to the Victorian age itself.
- There is a heartlessness behind his sentimentally overflowing style.
- My own experience in reading Dickens...is to be bounced between violent admiration and violent distaste almost every couple of paragraphs, …
- Dickens did not merely believe in the brotherhood of man in the weak modern way; he was the brotherhood of man, and knew it was a brotherho…
- The art of Dickens was the most exquisite of arts: it was the art of enjoying everybody. Dickens, being a very human writer, had to be a ve…