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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."
"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
"A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities, it keeps your avatar strong."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"
"If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one."
"We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help."
"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
"It is necessary to fall in love " the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway."
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