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"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
"The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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