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" Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. "
Teeth
Novels
Bad
" It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. "
Love
Looking
Looking Back
" Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "
Words
Logical
Armed
" People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. "
People
You
Talk
" Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. "
Poem
City
Service
" The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. "
Beginning
Being Human
End
" The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. "
Reading
Talking
Book
" There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form. "
Art
People
Play
" There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. "
Expect
Nothing
Children
" The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. "
Life
Debate
Self
" To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. "
Peace
Punishment
Misunderstanding
" We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. "
Irony
Win
Wars
" When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. "
World
Friends
Some
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