Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

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For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for...

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for...

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have...

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have...

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the...

That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the...

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a...

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a...

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room...

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room...

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.