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There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

- Guy Davenport
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Guy Davenport
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Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked like. My ambition is solely to get some effect, as of light on stone in a forest on a September day.

I am not writing for scholars or fellow critics, but for people who like to read, to look at pictures, and to know things.

As long as you have ideas, you can keep going. That's why writing fiction is so much fun: because you're moving people about, and making settings for them to move in, so there's always something there to keep working on.

Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.

The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.

The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote when I could. Weekends were good typewriter time. Now, it's whenever I feel there's something to be put on paper. I don't care what time it is, though I always write in the notebooks at night.

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There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.