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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so…
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Canadians, do not vomit on me!
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It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and…
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Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or she.
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While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.
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Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions…
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How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so,…
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Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to…
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Memory - the very skin of life.
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The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief…
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Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming…
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