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"Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."
"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."
"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
"You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice."
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"They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know."
"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past."
"The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea."
"Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord."
"We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any."
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