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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race

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What's a fuck when what I want is love?

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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, sing...more

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Passing beneath the dance hall, thinking again of this book, I realized suddenly that our life had come to an end: I realized that the book I was plan...more

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1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly,...more

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The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.

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He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers -...more

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One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.

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Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

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I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the abs...more

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No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untra...more

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This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit down and wait for this to happen. But it never di...more

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I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with lov...more