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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
"You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself."
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"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
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