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• Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these…
• All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be…
• A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
• One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the…
• What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in…
• Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
• I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
• In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
• Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
• High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and…
• I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost…
• I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book…

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