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• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose,…
• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start,…
• Small things start us in new ways of thinking
• Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You…
• And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of…
• The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit…
• It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You…
• All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of…
• But everything of value about me is in my books.
• Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
• What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw…
• We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

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