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"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."
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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."
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"
"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."
"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."
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"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."
"Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange."
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
"If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love."
"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter."
"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."
"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
"Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself."
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