Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.William Styron
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. . . .
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The pain is unrelenting one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
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