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"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
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"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."
"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."
"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."
"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."
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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."
"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
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