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"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."
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"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
"Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion."
"My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out."
"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."
"Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising."
"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
"Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self."
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"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
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