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"I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom."
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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

"According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it."
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"As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people."


"Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it."


"The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government."


"Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand."


"I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom."
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