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"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
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"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"

"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."

"Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly."

"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"

"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."

"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."

"Snooty knew measly talked muchly."

"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."

"Find a voice in a whisper."
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"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."

"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary."

"Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."

"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."

"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."

"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories."
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