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• ‟ Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

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• ‟ Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

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• ‟ Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.

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• ‟ What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

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• ‟ Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

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• ‟ No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.

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• ‟ My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

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• ‟ My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

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• ‟ English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.

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• ‟ English is the only interesting thing that's left in my life.

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• ‟ I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

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• ‟ I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

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• ‟ I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

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• ‟ Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.

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• ‟ For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'

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