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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

H. G. Wells
Art, Attitude, Taken
H. G. Wells (2016). “Experiment in Autobiography - Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866)”, p.47, Read Books Ltd

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

H. G. Wells
Art, Artist, Journalist
H. G. Wells (2017). “The Time Machine”, p.10, Oxford University Press

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

H. G. Wells
Art, Lying, Believe
H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.90, H. G. Wells

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

H. G. Wells
Art, Fate, Energy
H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine: Classic Fantasy Action and Adventure Mystery Horror Humour Science fiction comic Art”, p.31, Fantasia Publish

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

H. G. Wells
Girl, Art, Accomplishment
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.2849, Delphi Classics

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