Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. - Albert Camus - Quotesmemo.com

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What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.

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Albert Camus

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

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Find your happiness in yourself.

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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.

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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Era, Eras, Man, Men, Pretends, Want

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What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick up any short story and listen to its voice, the tedious easy vernacular that mistakes transcription for realism. This would display an understandable pragmatism if it were a pandering to common-denominator readers; but it is, in fact, a kind of hifalultin literary ideology, the less-is-more Hemingway legacy put through an up-to-the-minute industrial blender.

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