For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own. - Caroline Lejeune

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Caroline Lejeune: "For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own."

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Acquires	Author	Behind	Book
Deucalions	Good	Life	Little
Merely	Once	Petrifaction	Quality
Separate	Stone	Tossed	Vivid

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