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"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary."

"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."

"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."

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"After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent."
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