Jenny Lang
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“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“Read as little as possible of literary criticism — such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.”
― On Self-Respect
― On Self-Respect
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
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