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“Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.”

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“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to…

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“If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is…

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The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a…

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When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

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Getting even is one reason for writing.

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“It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of…

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“I dreamed my lips would drift down your back like a skiff on a river. I'd follow a vein with the point of my…

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“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like…

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“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb…

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“Excellence is inconveniently difficult.”

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We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who…

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We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of…

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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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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.”

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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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