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• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was…
• I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
• The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
• What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
• ...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
• The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
• she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
• There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings…
• He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

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