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"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."
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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."
"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say."
"The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business."
"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."
"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."
"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
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