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- You've got be careful about getting locked into open systems.
- IBM salesman
- Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.
- Wilfred Sheed
- Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Henry James chews more than he bites off.
- Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880)
- Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
- Cecilia Bartholomew
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- ...You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
- Graham Green, *The Quiet American*
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- T.S. Eliot
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