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Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

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I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

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Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

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Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

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Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

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And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

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