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"The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
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"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
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"My literary success meant nothing to me."
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"My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth."
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"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned."
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"People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite."
Death
"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."
Nature
"I'm not that interested in people."
People
"The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall."
Governance
"Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools."
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"My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer."
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"In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune."
Being
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