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I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

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I think the story is my form.

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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other…

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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

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Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

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We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent…

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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 things that…

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Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

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“Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A…

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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

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Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with…

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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

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