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Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.

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The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing wit…

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The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

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But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

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The world is full of places to which I want to return

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For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even thoug…

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There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. An…

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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

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If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

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What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

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