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I have a strange illusion qui...

I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

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They're beautiful. But sad.' ...

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

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You must make, always. You mu...

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

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Like all mystics (and many no...

Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.

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Just those three words, said ...

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

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Piers is always going on abou...

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

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The absurdly neurotic role yo...

The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

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I was too green to know that ...

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

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It's like the day you realize...

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

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He's not human; he's an empty...

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

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Wolves don't hunt singly, but...

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

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The great majority of modern ...

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

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Each age, each guilty age, bu...

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

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On the whole, dialogue is the...

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

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Duty is but a pot. It holds w...

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

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If anything might hurt her, s...

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

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You put up with your voice an...

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

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Whatever sympathy I feel towa...

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

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I am one in a row of specimen...

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

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One of the great fallacies of...

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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