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“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.”
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“So familiar that it didn't even register in the conversation; but it did reappear when I laid it out on the table of my dreams.”
― Conversations
― Conversations

“Everyone likes ice cream," he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. "Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.”
― How I Became a Nun
― How I Became a Nun

“LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self.
MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
― The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
― The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
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