A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
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Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of life"-you know, colds, hangovers, bills, sprained ankles and little nuisances of one sort or another.
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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They are the constants of life, at the core of life, along with nice little delights that come along every now and then. we all have them and they're a hell of a lot more invariable than nuclear fission or the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
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