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"Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth."
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"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
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Personal Development
"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy."
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Personal Development
"Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth."
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"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."
Reading
"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."
Friendship
"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."
Life
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
Time
"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."
Peace
"Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city."
Art
"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars."
History
"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."
Friendship
"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words."
Poetry
"Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth."
Aphorisms
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