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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave

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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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Evil is whatever distracts.

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

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If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

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To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

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The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

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The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

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The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.

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No rival will steal away my sure love that glory will be my gray hair.

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