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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket."
Experience
"Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry."
Nature
"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others."
Man
"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."
Flying
"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience."
Patience
"My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder."
Memory
"The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off."
Life
"Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of."
Family
"The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it."
Writing
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