“Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.”
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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