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““A certain pleasure was added to Grace’s relief at establishing herself as a migratory bird. She found that she understood the characters in her novel. Her words flowed, she was excited, she could see everyone and everything.””

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Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

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I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.

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“So I went up north to a land of palm trees and mangroves like malignant growths in the mud-filled throats of the bays, and…

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“I have to cry out here that language is all we have for the delicacy and truth of telling, that words are the sole…

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The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

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“Life is hell, but there are prizes. ”

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I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.

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Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks…

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I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.

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People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words…

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So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty…

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She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish…

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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