"Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life."
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"Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us."
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"The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes."
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"There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft."
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"Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter."
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"Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract."
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"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
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