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“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.”
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“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ”
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“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.”
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“We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.”
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