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"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."
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"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."
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"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"
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"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."
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"Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives."
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"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"
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"..holding a book but reading the empty spaces."
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"Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
Experience
"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
Wisdom
"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
Mind
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
Age
"America is a young country with an old mentality."
Politics
"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."
Life
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
Culture
"It is wisdom to believe the heart."
Philosophy
"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
Spiritual
"Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
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