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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
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“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Oedipus Rex
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Oedipus Rex
“One devil, dat Spitz," remarked Perrault. "Some dam day heem keel dat Buck."
"Dat Buck two devils," was Francois's rejoinder.”
― The Call of the Wild
"Dat Buck two devils," was Francois's rejoinder.”
― The Call of the Wild
“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of "Is your novel an open work or not?" How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or "With which of your characters do you identify?" For God's sake, with whom does an author identify? With the adverbs, obviously.”
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
― Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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