"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."

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"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."

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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."

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"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'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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"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."

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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

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"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"Nothing is ever free even a torn and worn underwear."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Scientifically speaking - you cannot. Accept it. You simply cannot make any nation completely corruption-free. It is only an absurd fairytale. It feels good to talk about it, but it cannot be made a reality."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Reality, Life, Death, Suffering

"The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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