"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
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"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."
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"Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure"
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"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
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"My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered."
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"He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods."
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"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."
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"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"Also, I've already won all the awards."
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"The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage."
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"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."
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"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal"
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"Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature."
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"Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do."
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"Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed."
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"To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people."
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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
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"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."
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"Libraries are the wardrobes of literature."
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