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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
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Personal Development
"One must steer, not talk."
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Personal Development
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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Personal Development
"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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Personal Development
"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."
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Personal Development
"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
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"Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me."
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"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"The middlebrow, I hate."
Hate
"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."
Question
"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
Fun
"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
Politics
"I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies."
Friendship
"Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American."
Literature
"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
Art
"It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end."
Literature
"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."
Existence
"I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off."
Time
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