Quotations in my writing are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack and relieve the idle passerby of his convictions.
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Quotations in my writing are like robbers by the roadside who make an armed attack and relieve the idle passerby of his convictions.
“Henry James wanted to write a book in the shape of an hourglass. Flaubert wanted to write a novel about nothing. What I’ve learned is that the muses’ decision to sing or not to sing is not based on the elevation of your moral purpose — they will sing or not regardless.”
John Barth