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From Journey by Moonlight, by Antal Szerb, translated by Julie Orringer

ALL

"All she knew was that she had saved money. She hadn't gone here, and she hadn't gone there, and she hadn't done this, and she hadn't done that, so that she wouldn't have to spend money. But what she had actually done apart from that was mysterious, dreamlike..."

From Chapter XII

Clerihew of Domestic Bliss

PAUL VERLAINE

"How's your boyfriend treating you?
Is he still beating you?"
"Can't complain,"
Says Verlaine.

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From The Queen's Necklace, by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix

THE TIMES

"The times we live in teach literary people like myself to look beyond our usual subjects and seek fresh inspiration in history."

First line of the author's Preface.

A poem by Robert Creeley

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From Kabbalah and Criticism, by Harold Bloom

INFLUENCE

"'Influence' is an ambivalent word to use in any discourse about literature, for 'influence' is as complex a trope as language affords."

From The Necessity of Misreading

My Avatar Is Hairier Than Yours

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From The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, by Edward Gibbon

IT MAY

"It may be remarked that man in the only animal which can live and multiply in every country from the equator to the poles. The hog seems to approach the nearest to our species in that privilege."

From Footnote 13, Chapter IX