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“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“I always advise people never to give advice.”
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“My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.”
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“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
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“The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.”
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