Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
Anthony Powell
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Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.
One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
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I have 13 dependents. All of them have 140 IQ or better, except me. I'm under 100 IQ, and I support them all.
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
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