"It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you."

Writing, Empathy, Identity, Creation

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"It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you."

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"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

Literature

"A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself."

Education

"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

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"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."

Friendship

"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."

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"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."

Greatness

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

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"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed."

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"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."

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