"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

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"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."

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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."

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"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."

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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."

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"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

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"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."

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"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."

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"The blue of daylightfades and chills as the sun sinksbeneath clouds of fire."

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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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"The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world."

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"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

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"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."

Steven Magee, British Author

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