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- When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
- All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
- The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
- Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
- First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures,…
- Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.
- The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling.
- All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
- Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if…
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a…
- Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.
- Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points…
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