Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.Van Wyck Brooks
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
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Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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