“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.”
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“They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.”
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“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
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