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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature."
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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."
"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
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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."
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
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