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"A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation."
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"There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans."
"We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before."
"Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over."
"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."
"Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness; thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that."
"The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul living in joy and peace."
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"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
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