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• Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
• Self knowledge is always bad news.
• The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
• Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's…
• If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world.…
• You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also…
• Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?
• One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my…

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