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"What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature."
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"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
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"It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945."
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"And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international."
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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."
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"Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country."
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"I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various."
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"Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it."
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"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
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"The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel."
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"The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own."
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"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
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"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."
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"Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."
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"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."
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"Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip."
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"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in."
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"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."
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"There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him."
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"Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature."
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"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."
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