Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
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For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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