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The words of a dead man
Are modified in the guts of the living.
A great deal of unnecessary worry is indulged in by theatregoers trying to understand what Bernard Shaw means. They are not satisf ...
It so happened that, a few weeks later, "Old Ernie" [Ernest Hemingway] himself was using my room in New York as a hide-out from li ...
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him eac ...
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to ra ...
[I] delivered the Introduction of it to Baldwin, that I might say my book was at if not in the press on New Year's Day.
I have Johnsonised the land; and I trust they will not only talk, but think, Johnson.
In progress of time, when my mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian æther, I could, with much more facili ...
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
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