A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.John Cheever
Art is the triumph over chaos.
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The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
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Homesickness is ... absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.... You don't really long foranother country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
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