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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

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An answer is always a form of death.

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The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: March 31st, 1926

Died: November 5th, 2005

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