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"If I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
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"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
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"Her words dance on the page."
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Life
"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Life
"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Beauty
"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."
Woman
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
Experience
"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
Emotional
"Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions."
Morality
"New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire."
Travel
"The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements-an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation, though monotonous, might be of a cheerful cast."
Philosophy
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
Independence
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