“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
