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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.


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Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.



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The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.



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But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.



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Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.



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For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.





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