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- It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []…
- The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all…
- The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try…
- The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely…
- I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,…
- ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to…
- He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the…
- And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
- I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the…
- Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it…
- It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and…
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