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“There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.”

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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

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“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.”

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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

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“When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.”

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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art…

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Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with…

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The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an…

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Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

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