He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
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He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.
Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides
I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.
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