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"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."
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"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others."
"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind."
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."
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"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."
"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
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