"My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work."
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"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."
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"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
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"Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger."
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"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people."
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"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."
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"He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?"
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"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."
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"Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
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"It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead."
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"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true."
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"When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat."
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"One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia."
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"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness."
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"In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet"
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"We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that."
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"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
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"Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas."
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