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“Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and – most of all – the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.”
― Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition
― Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition
“My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.”
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“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”
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“How perfectly goddamn delightful it all is to be sure”
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“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.”
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
― Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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