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| A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out |
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| A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study |
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| A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. |
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| A man is only as good as what he loves |
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| A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. |
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| All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. |
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| Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. |
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| As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting / the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. |
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| California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. |
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| Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. |
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| Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. |
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| Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. |
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| Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. |
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| I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you." |
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| I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom—which is bordered on all sides by isolation—is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life’s banquet. |
| Freedom; Selfishness |
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| I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture |
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| I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. |
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