"There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot "continuity... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer..."

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"There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot "continuity... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer..."

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"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative."

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"As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can't be just, be arbitrary."

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"The face of evil is always the face of total need."

Evil

"That old feeling is still in my leaking heart."

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"You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live."

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"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."

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"The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host."

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"Why are we here? We're here to go!"

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"In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed."

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"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."

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