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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

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The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

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Our society like decadent Rome has turned into an amusement society with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as p...more

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There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high r...more

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I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

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But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more; and besides, his letters to the living were in...more