There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
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Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.
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