"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."
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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats."
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