They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
