"You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth."
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"It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him."
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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."
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"Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors."
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"It is not good to have a rule of many."
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"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self."
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"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."
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"each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature."
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"One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves."
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"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
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"Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth."
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"Smiles form the channels of a future tear."
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"Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down."
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"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen."
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"Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score."
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"And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'."
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"Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author."
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"Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured."
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"The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong."
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"Im always trolling for trivia."
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