Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
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Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
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