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"To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative."
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"Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it."
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"There's nothing colder than chemistry."
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."
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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."
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"What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it."
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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."
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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."
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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee."
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"I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative."
Writing
"After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it."
Time
"It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is."
God
"To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative."
Nothing
"The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity."
Identity
"If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell."
Career
"Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash."
Earth
"I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is."
Writing
"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."
Art
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