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But he could admit, if only to himself, it wasn’t solidarity driving Tadeusz to Spain. It wasn’t romance either. It wasn’t even calculation, though he later would pretend to himself and others that it was. It was just the easiest thing to
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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
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“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different. ”
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are. They are different. ”
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