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I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the...
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's...
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster...
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.Source: The Life I Really...
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with...
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my...
. . . every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend...
God, the illogic! The impossibility of communication in this house. The sheer operation alone of getting something...
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always...
The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability...
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?Source: Selected Works of Djuna...
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.Source: Pilgrimage, Vol. 11, Ch....
. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to...
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even...
Let's face it -- who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...
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