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"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
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"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."


"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."


"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."


"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories."


"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
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