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“Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.”
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“Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains...”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.”
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“We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.”
― Xenocide
― Xenocide
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