Art must take reality by surprise.

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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

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After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ""fronts"" people assume before one another's eyes, and the ""front"" a writer puts on the face of reality.

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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

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