- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
- Confess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I confess, I do not believe in time.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
- Count
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Hoot
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
- Enjoy Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
- Explain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
- Nov 07, 2020
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
- Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one school of literature - that of talent.
- Masterpiece
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- Nov 07, 2020
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
- Flabby
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
- Masterpiece
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- Nov 07, 2020
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
- Complacency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
- Created
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- Nov 07, 2020
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
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- Nov 07, 2020