When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

Satyajit Ray

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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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