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Everyone Is Necessarily The Hero Of His Own Life Story.

More History Is Made By Secret Handshakes Than By Battles, Bills And Proclamations.

One Of The Things I Miss About Teaching Is That Students Would Tell Me What I Ought To Read. One Of My Students, Back In The 1960s, Put Me Onto Borges, And I Remember Another Mentioning Flann O'brien's At Swim Two-birds In The Same Way.

I Admire Writers Who Can Make Complicated Things Simple, But My Own Talent Has Been To Make Simple Things Complicated.

The First Obligation Of The Writer Is To Be Interesting. To Be Interesting; Not To Change The World.