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by Thomas Mann

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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