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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence."
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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."

"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."

"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."

"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."

"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."

"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
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