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[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

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I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

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God pity the poor novelist.

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I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

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All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

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And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart-a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there-and one day he looked up from a piece of snow-colored rice paper and knew he was done. It was as simple as that: you bent over your work night after night, and one day you were done. Snow still lay in dirty streaks on the ground but clusters of yellow-green flowers hung from the sugar maples.

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Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

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