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"My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am."
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"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores."
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"I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book."
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"More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray."
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"A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul."
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"When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough."
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"I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem."
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"I'm fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high."
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"Smiling and Expressions of Emotion. A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, and encouraging. People do read a book by its cover and your expressions provide a glimpse for what they'll find inside."
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"It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout."
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"Smiling is one of your most powerful non-verbal behaviors. People do read a book by its cover and these expressions provide glimpses into what they will find inside."
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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."
Observation
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
Art
"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
Learning
"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
"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
History
"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."
Health
"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"
Philosophy
"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future."
Equality
"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
Sociology
"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."
People
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