“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.”
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.