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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."

"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."

"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."
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"Writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ..."

"People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression..."

"...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears..."

"Words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ..."

"I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face..."

"I love Shakespeare, but sometimes....his images - If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head...."

"The monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't..."

"I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been..."
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