We are all ONE, say the gurus. Aye, I might agree--but one WHAT?
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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"Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today."
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