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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
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"Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy."
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"I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray."
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"It may seem so easy to take it easy but, it is never so easy to take it easy."
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"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"A realist is a slave to reality."
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"The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind."
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"Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea."
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"Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists."
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"Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary."
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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
Power
"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."
History
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
Work
"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
Enemy
"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."
Thought
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
Act
"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."
Nature
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
Fight
"I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important."
Time
"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
Fact
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