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"One day, one of our writers whom I used to reproach with writing best sellers and with never expressing himself, led me in front of a mirror.
"I want to be strong, " he said. "Look at yourself. I want to eat. I want to travel. I want to live. I do not want to become a fountain pen."
From OPIUM, the Diary of a Cure, Peter Owen Limited Publishers, London MCMLVII
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JEAN COCTEAU quote
"A writer develops the muscles of his mind. This training leaves hardly any leisure for sport. It demands suffering, falls, laziness, weakness, setbacks, exhaustion, mourning, insomnia, exercises which are the reverse of those which develop the body.
From OPIUM, the Diary of a Cure, Peter Owen Limited Publishers, London MCMLVII
From OPIUM, the Diary of a Cure, Peter Owen Limited Publishers, London MCMLVII
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