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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and cons...more

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I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bibl...more

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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your surviva...more

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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? –