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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."

"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."

"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."

"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."

"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
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