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"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
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"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."
"No one knows a man better than himself."
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