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"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
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