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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker