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"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
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"The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth."
"We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge."
"What one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
"Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them."
"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."
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