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Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

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I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

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Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

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Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

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Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism. " If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.

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Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

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