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"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"

"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."

"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."

"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."

"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."


"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."


"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."


"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."


"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."


"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself."


"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."


"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."
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