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“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.”
― Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
― Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“The acts of madmen exceed the previsions of the sane.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
“The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
― Labyrinths
― Labyrinths
“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.”
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“Why does it disturb us that Don Quixote be a reader of the "Quixote" and Hamlet a spectator of "Hamlet"?... these inversions suggest that if the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictitious.”
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
― Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
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