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I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing s...more

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The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

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…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I ...more

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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

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Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no wor...more