Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear, or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life, and one is as good as the other.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
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