"A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets,..."
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us...."
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"All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is..."
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"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create..."
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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but..."
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our..."
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"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud...."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the same as..."
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"I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a "suspension of..."
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"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money..."
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"It takes little talent to see what is under one's nose, a good deal of it..."
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"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave..."
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"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of..."
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"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience..."
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"Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying...."
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"Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are..."
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered...."
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"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with..."
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"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind...."
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"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living...."
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"We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I..."
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"When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should..."
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"You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England,..."
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