“ All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. ”
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“ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. ”
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“ There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. ”
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“ Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. ”
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“ Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ”
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“ Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ”
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“ As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ”
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“ Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [The New Statesman, February 25, 1933] ”
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“ When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. ”
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“ Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. ”
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“ It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer it will go flat,’ we should remain incredulous and Paracelsus, the Alchemists, Aleister Crowley and all the Magi have lived in vain. Yet when I read science I turn magical; when I study magic, scientific. ”
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“ The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. ”
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“ We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. ”
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“ In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who "come out" together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society… ”
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“ A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ”
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“ Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-Pres: there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past. ”
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“ The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. ”
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“ The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. ”
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“ The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ”
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“ The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him. ”
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“ There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. ”
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“ Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. ”
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“ A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. ”
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“ Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. ”
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