Anais Nin Quotes

The Other Night We Talked About Literature's Elimination Of The Unessential, So That We Are Given A Concentrated "dose" Of Life. I Said, Almost Indignantly, "That's The Danger Of It, It Prepares You To Live, But At The Same Time, It Exposes You To Disappointments Because It Gives A Heightened Concept Of Living, It Leaves Out The Dull Or Stagnant Moments. You, In Your Books, Also Have A Heightened Rhythm, And A Sequence Of Events So Packed With Excitement That I Expected All Your Life To Be Delirious, Intoxicated."
Literature Is An Exaggeration, A Dramatization, And Those Who Are Nourished On It (as I Was) Are In Great Danger Of Trying To Approximate An Impossible Rhythm. Trying To Live Up To Dostoevskian Scenes Every Day. And Between Writers There Is A Straining After Extravagance. We Incite Each Other To Jazz-up Our Rhythm.

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