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Kris Kipling
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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
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“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into the tree trunk. After waiting for a long time, the poet discovers that he is the hare.”
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“You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.”
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“Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.”
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“It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.”
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The Nobel Prize in Literature
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Loosed in Translation
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