The Rich Have A Passion For Bargains

The Rich Have A Passion For Bargains As Lively As It Is Pointless.

Illness Is The Opposite Of Freedom. It Makes Everything Impossible.

Of Course The Illusion Of Art Is To Make One Believe That Great Literature Is Very Close To Life, But Exactly The Opposite Is True. Life Is Amorphous, Literature Is Formal.

He Refused Categorically All Ideas Of Fidelity Or Serious Commitments. He Explained That They Were Arbitrary And Sterile. From Anyone Else Such Views Would Have Shocked Me, But I Knew That In His Case They Did Not Exclude Tenderness And Devotion - Feelings Which Came All The More Easily To Him Since He Was Determined That They Should Be Transient.

Usually I Avoided College Students, Whom I Considered Brutal, Wrapped Up In Themselves, Particularly In Their Youth, In Which They Found Material For Drama Or An Excuse For Their Own Boredom. I Did Not Care For Young People.