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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time…

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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of…
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.…
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,…
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of…
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to…
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch…
Of course I loved books more than people.
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure…

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Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things. — Benjamin Franklin

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