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The hypocrite, among other things, can be a deformed ambassador of the truth.
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An excess of storytelling has become the contemporary way of shrouding, in majesty, a lack; it is the Sun King principle. The lack is the human.
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The big contemporary novel is a perpetual motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity. It seems to want to abolish stillness, as if ashamed of silence. Stories and sub-stories sprout on every page, and these novels continually flourish their glamorous congestion.
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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
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James Wood
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November 1, 1965
(age 59)
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James Douglas Graham Wood is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist. As of 2014, he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.
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