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The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
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I read with reluctance the librettos that are sent to me. It is impossible, or almost impossible, for someone else to divine what I want.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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It's not that the book is coded, what's coded is the events that serve as its foundation, just as some of the events in One Hundred Years of Solitude are. The rest is experiences I've had. When my mother reads the book she's wonderful, because she goes through it saying, "This is such-and-such, this is that, that's my buddy, the one people said was queer but really wasn't."
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Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?
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But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information. I worry that here in the 21st century people misunderstand what libraries are and the purpose of them. If you perceive a library as a shelf of books, it may seem antiquated or outdated in a world in which most, but not all, books in print exist digitally. But that is to miss the point fundamentally.
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In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion, then she lies.
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Raymond Passworthy: Oh, God, is there ever to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest?
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