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  1. Literature is analysis after the event.
  2. Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great co…
  3. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
  4. You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy an…
  5. If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
  6. In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly…
  7. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
  8. You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling th…

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