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"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable."
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"I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Fiction's about what it is to be a human being."
Being
"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."
God
"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."
Society
"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
God
"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."
Society
"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."
Life
"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."
Consequence
"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride."
Society
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
Society
"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
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