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Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
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Scratch a cynic and underneath, as often as not, you will find a dead idealist.
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I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.
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No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.
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What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams... and what we do to make them come about.
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
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A form [of writing] that's like a pair of baggy pants into which nearly anyone and anything can fit.
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I don't have fixed opinions or views when I start to write; it's writing that forces them out of me.
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
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American writing is not noted for cynicism; our country is founded on optimism. In a way, it won't quite do to be an American cynic.
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It may be natural to think that one has always arrived on the scene too late. You just get there, and you say, "What? The party's over?".
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The idea that there are good people and bad people is not the way to proceed in fiction. What you need to do is find an interest in all people.
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We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.
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When I write an essay I don't set out to teach. I set out, usually, on a mission of self-discovery — to find out what I really think about a subject.
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I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said that You are what you eat, but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.
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The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
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The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.
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I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.
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Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones. Literarily, reading about food is more interesting than reading about sex.
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Each manuscript laid on my desk was a carcass, to be stripped of its fat and gristle and made sufficiently presentable for the somewhat less than lustrous showcase in which it would eventually appear.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Joseph Epstein
Born:
October 16, 1911
Died:
April 11, 1944
(aged 32)
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