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"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
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"Then, were not summer's distillation leftA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet."
"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
"Do you think I'm pretty?He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I think you're beautiful."Beautiful?"You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes."
"She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache."
"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."
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"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
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