Memoirs of Hecate County
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“There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.”
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“Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.”
“I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.”
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“All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.”
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“It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.”
“Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.”
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“The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.”
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“Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.”
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“They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.”
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“I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.”
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