"Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief."
"Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer."
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Source: 1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.
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