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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

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Paris. . . is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

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The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit

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Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique

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The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

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