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Writing Has Freed Me From The Despair Of Living.

Always Let Them Think Of You As Singing And Dancing.

Fiction Is The Great Repository Of The Moral Sense. The Wicked Get Punished.

One Loses The Capacity To Grieve As A Child Grieves, Or To Rage As A Child Rages: Hotly, Despairingly, With Tears Of Passion. One Grows Up, One Becomes Civilized, One Learns One's Manners, And Consequently Can No Longer Manage These Two Functions - Sorrow And Anger - Adequately.

Writing Novels Preserves You In A State Of Innocence - A Lot Passes You By - Simply Because Your Attention Is Otherwise Diverted.