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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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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
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"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
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"Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?"
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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."
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"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."
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"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
"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
"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
"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."
Art
"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
"It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is."
God
"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
"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
"If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell."
Career
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