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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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"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."
"As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life."
"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
"I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else."
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."
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"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."
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