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"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."


"I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that."


"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."


"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."


"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."


"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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