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"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"At least I'm not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring."

"Throw a warrior to the wolves and he'll return a conqueror."

"Fear makes people speechless."

"When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence."

"All great achievements of humanity begin with the madness of a few lion-hearts."

"Walking on water is safer than sailing in a leaking boat."
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"Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain."

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

"It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know."

"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."

"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."

"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
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