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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

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We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.

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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

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