“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
― Studies in Classic American Literature
― Studies in Classic American Literature
“The true test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind, and continue to function. (The Crack-Up)”
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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