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“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Words are like moments, we can have thousands of them to find one sentence of brilliance.”

— Zachary Koukol

“Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they…

— Anonymous

“And he makes all sorts of people feel that he has exactly what they’ve been looking for. Subtlety for the subtle. Warmth for the…

— Saul Bellow

“..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered…

— Henry James

“The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.”

— Rosemary Jackson

“But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit…

— Mervyn Peake

“...his ridiculousness was a form of vitality.”

— Rachel Kushner

“What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure…

— Terry Pratchett

“Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and…

— Wendy Brenner

“Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his…

— Oscar Wilde