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"Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite trifling cause, offending him. The truth seems to be the nobody likes to see himself described as he is, or cares to see exactly set down what he said and did. Well, even i can understand that - because i don't like it myself when I am the sitter not the portraitist: the frailty of egos- and the more accurate the strokes, the greater the resentment."
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"The lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end."

"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

"It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."

"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
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"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."


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"Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers."


"Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise."


"Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky."
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