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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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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.



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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.



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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.



We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.



Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.



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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.



The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.



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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.



While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.



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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.





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If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.



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I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.



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The years teach much which the days never know.



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Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?



My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.



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There are a whole variety of reasons I want to be attorney general, a whole variety of things that I do as attorney general that go beyond national security.



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[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.



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