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Virginia Woolf
“Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

John Steinbeck
“I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of the truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agonyof a lie is neverlost. That's a running sore”
John Steinbeck
tags: lies

David Foster Wallace
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

H.L. Mencken
“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
H.L. Mencken

Donald Barthelme
“The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

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