“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.”
― Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
― Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
“But at other times, I sit here reading in the afternoon, a myrtle in my buttonhole, and there are such beautiful passages in the book that I think I have become beautiful myself.”
― Varieties of Disturbance
― Varieties of Disturbance
“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.”
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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Diggers
― Diggers
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