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- "A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. "
- "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more ..."
- "Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors ..."
- "Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. ..."
- "Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of ..."
- "Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. "
- "Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. "
- "He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to ..."
- "I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me. "
- "I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of ..."
- "I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books ..."
- "I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down ..."
- "If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. "
- "Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend ..."
- "Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The ..."
- "May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write ..."
- "Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. "
- "Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. "
- "Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody ..."
- "Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I ..."
- "The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, ..."
