“It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.”
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“It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.”
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“Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.”
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“To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.”
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“People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.”
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“The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they ar...”
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“Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.”
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“When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.”
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