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I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.

Kenneth Patchen
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God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.

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Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

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In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.

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