It takes a long time to understand nothing.
From Edward Dahlberg
Every decision you make is a mistake.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
To write is a humiliation.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
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