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"It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut."
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"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."
"My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them."
"It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good."
"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."
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"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
"All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there."
"As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are."
"I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost."
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