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That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't in...more

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I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and t...more

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Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become wh...more

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He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That's how it happens ...more

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Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding...more

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Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentenc...more