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"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
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"Living simply makes loving simple."
"Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk."
"If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming, of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are alive."
"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."
"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
"Food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection."
"An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect."
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"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."
"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
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