"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."
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"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."
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"Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report."
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"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
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"In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense."
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"And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life."
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"Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me."
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"All literature is gossip."
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"Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature."
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"The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen."
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"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
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"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."
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"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it."
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"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning."
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"I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up."
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"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice."
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"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
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"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
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"Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it."
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"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably."
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