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"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
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"A touch of love makes everything better."
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"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."
"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power."
"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."
"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."
"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."
"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
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