The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
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Zum Autor"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."
"[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it."
"Sex is like money only too much is enough."
"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."
"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."