What has a writer to be bombastic about Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
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We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.Edward Dahlberg
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
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One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
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Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
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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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Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man he was certainly a drumbling one.
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