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"I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."
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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."
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"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"
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"Knowledge is life."
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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks."
Identity
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
Driving
"Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake."
Time
"I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech."
Thought
"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."
Art
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
Being
"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."
History
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
Writing
"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing."
People
"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."
Life
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