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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great...
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical...
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the...
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent...
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.Source: In Face, (London),...
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that...
A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.Source:...
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler...
Let's face it, writing is hell.Source: Interview in Writers at Work (First...
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. More about this quote...
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.Source: Clea, in Clea, ch. 1, sct....
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth...
Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but...
It is said, I believe, that to behold the Englishman at his best one should watch him play...
The Road to Gandolfo is one of those rare if insance accidents that can happen to a writer perhaps once or twice in...
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. More about this quote...
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the...
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our...
Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.Source: Aspects of the Novel,...
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