If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

The Cold War and the Income Tax: A protest New York NY: Farrar Straus and Co. "
He wrote many letters to Anaïs Nin criticizing her for her surrealistic style as opposed to the realism that was then deemed correct writing and ended by asking for her hand saying he would "teach her to write"[citation needed] which Edmund Wilson took as an insult. Leon Edel New York NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1983
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