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A community s art is its spiritual vision.

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Give me a place to stand, and I will include the world.

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A literary critic of experience never defines anything.

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Yesterday's kook book becomes tomorrow's standard text.

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Advertising—a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

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Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

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Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

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Metaphor is the language of immanence; metonymy of transcendence.

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The total simultaneous pattern always extend from alpha to omega.

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We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.

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Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

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War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.

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Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

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We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

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Criticism... is to art what history is to action and philosophy to wisdom.

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We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.

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My greater simplicity came from a deeper level than the labyrinth of the brain.

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One should have bigger & better conversions everyday, like a mechanized phoenix.

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I must have God on my own terms, because God on somebody else's terms is an idol.

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The primary function of education is to make one maladjusted to ordinary society.

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There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.

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Genius is a power of the soul and that powers of the soul can be developed by everyone.

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The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

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This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

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If you haven't got an excremental vision you have no business setting up as a major satirist.

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To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

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