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"As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings."
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"I took two years away from making films to write a novel."
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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
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"I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade."
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"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth."
"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
"I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies."
"Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light."
"You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together."
"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
"Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary."
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