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"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
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"A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill."
"My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate."
"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
"In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that."
"I'm with him because when I'm with him, I'm free to be me. I'm with him because he's hot. I'm with him because he lets me blather, since I'm prone to blathering, and he lets me rant when I have a bad day. I'm with him because when I rant, he makes me feel better and he does this effortlessly. I'm with him because I live for the times when I'm on the back of his bike and we're riding together, not even talking, just being free."
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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
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"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."
"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
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