The tiny madman in his padded cell.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
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