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The primary condition for being sincere is the same as for being humble: not to boast of it, and probably not even to be aware of it.
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Writing a novel is not very difficult: you simply write ten pages a day for a month and then you have a novel.
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One of the most considerable achievements of Surrealism was its discovery that many writers and painters of the past had been Surrealists without knowing it.
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There is only one type of decadence which is dangerous in art and literature, and unfortunately critics seldom scourge it as it deserves: it consists in being conventional and imitative, in tritely expressing cheap and superficial emotions.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Henri Peyre
Born:
February 21, 1901
Died:
December 9, 1988
(aged 87)
Bio:
Henri Maurice Peyre was a French-born American, linguist, literary scholar and Sterling Professor of French Emeritus at Yale University.
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