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At Large and At Small (2007)
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When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
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Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
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What hashish was to Baudelaire, opium to Coleridge, cocaine to Robert Louis Stevenson, nitrous oxide to Robert Southey, mescaline to Aldous Huxley, and Benzedrine to Jack Kerouac, caffeine was to Balzac.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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August 7, 1953
(age 71)
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