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" The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. "

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" A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. "

" No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. "

" Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. "

" A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. "

" There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. "

" The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. "

" Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. "

" Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. "

" Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. "

" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

" Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. "

" Youth is a period of missed opportunities. "

" We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. "

" The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. "

" A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. "

" Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. "

" The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. "

" Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. "

" Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. "

" It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. "

" We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

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" Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. "

" For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? "

" When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. "

" No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. "

" As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. "

" No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. "

" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "