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“What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.”

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failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

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A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

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I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

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I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for…

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There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people…

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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

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Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

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Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

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We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in…

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It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in…

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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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“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.”

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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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