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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He...
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate,...
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Personally, I’m in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society...
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my...
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.