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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is...

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is...

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie...

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie...

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up...

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up...

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are...

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are...

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage...

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage...

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always...

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always...

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you...

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you...

History takes time. History makes memory.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Remarks are not literature.

Remarks are not literature.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

There is no there there.

There is no there there.

If you can do it then why do it?

If you can do it then why do it?

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is....

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.