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"I have to say, though, I'm fascinated in how Sebastian's characterised. This is a man with demon blood inside him and he's done some evil and shady stuff. But he's painted in this seductive and lonely light that brings a little sympathy to him and... I'm a little uncomfortable. xD I don't know if that's good or bad yet, though." — Feb 05, 2017 04:59PM
"I have to say, though, I'm fascinated in how Sebastian's characterised. This is a man with demon blood inside him and he's done some evil and shady stuff. But he's painted in this seductive and lonely light that brings a little sympathy to him and... I'm a little uncomfortable. xD I don't know if that's good or bad yet, though." — Feb 05, 2017 04:59PM
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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