"Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again."
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"For hostile word let hostile word be paid."
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"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?"
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"It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant."
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"Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul."
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"I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person."
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"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."
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"The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions."
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"There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear."
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"It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000."
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"Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors."
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"The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money."
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"To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality."
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"There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter."
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"Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom."
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"writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed."
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"I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way."
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"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."
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"Without literature my life would be miserable."
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"Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients."
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