"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

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"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."

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"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."

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"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."

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"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."

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"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."

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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."

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"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."

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"The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure."

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