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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
People

"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
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"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
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"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
Environment

"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
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"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."
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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
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"Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions."
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"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."
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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
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"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."
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"The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive."
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