Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

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