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- Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to…
- All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
- His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for…
- The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
- Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional…
- The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
- And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.
- I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which…
- We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we…
- In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the…
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