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"I hate that word dysfunction."
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"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors."
"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech."
"But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores."
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"Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love."
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"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer."
"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"
"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
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