There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

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The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

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I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.

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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

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My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

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I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

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