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- You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
- Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three…
- I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,…
- Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to…
- Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
- I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
- I write to discover what I know.
- ...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see…
- You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it…
- I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
- Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and…
- [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The…
- Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
- I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply…
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