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"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster."
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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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"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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"Her words dance on the page."
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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
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"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."
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"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
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"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."
Imagination
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
Democracy
"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers."
Creativity
"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."
Persecutors
"We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune."
God
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
Delight
"We inhabit a language rather than a country."
Nation
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