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