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"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
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"In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will."
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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"We have to be careful about creating more rules."
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"You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity."
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"Restrict bankruptcy rules."
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"I've always found ways to bend the rules."
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"One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The names for syphilis, when it began its epidemic sweep through Europe in the last decade of the fifteenth century are an exemplary illustration of the need to make a dreaded disease foreign. It was the "French pox" to the English, morbus Germanicus to the Parisians, the Naples sickness to the Florentines, the Chinese disease to the Japanese. But what may seem like a joke about the inevitability of chauvinism reveals a more important truth: that there is a link between imagining disease and imagining foreignness."
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"Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex."
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"One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel obliged to think about what it means to look at them, about the capacity actually to assimilate what they show. Not all reactions to these pictures are under the supervision of reason and conscience."
Ethics
"Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead."
Philosophy
"No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain."
Relationship
"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."
Philosophy
"I have loved people passionately whom I wouldn't have slept with for anything, but I think that's something else. That's friendship -- love, which can be a tremendously passionate emotion, and it can be tender and involve a desire to hug or whatever. But it certainly doesn't mean you want to take off your clothes with that person. But certain friendships can be erotic. Oh, I think friendship is very erotic, but it isn't necessarily sexual. I think all my relationships are erotic: I can't imagine being fond of somebody I don't want to touch or hug, so therefore there's always an erotic aspect to some extent."
Friendship
"It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's."
Suffering
"Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind."
Religion
"This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example of such an overcooperative author. In the case of more stubborn authors, the critic is only too happy to perform the job."
Literature
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