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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
"When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books."
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"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
"No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book."
"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."
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