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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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