"What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends."
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"Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx."
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"Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!"
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"I am of Russian-Jewish distraction."
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"Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?"
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"Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made."
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"I am a book I neither wrote nor read."
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"I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure."
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