Gustave Flaubert · Translated by Jacques Barzun
Le Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues
Letter I
Always "lively." Be on guard against it. When lacking in oneself, attack it in others. To write a novel, all you need is imagination.
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All Neapolitans.
It is dangerous to eat them.
The best of the philosophic systems.
Perfectly useless.
Every newspaperman is an ideologist.
Those who differ with you.