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Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

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The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

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Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

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Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

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It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

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The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

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