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"It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject."
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"I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book."
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"Do well and you will have no need for ancestors."
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"It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow."
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"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
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"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
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Personal Development
"If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail."
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"Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will."
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"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."
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"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be."
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"It's through sheer will that I can sing."
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"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."
Writing
"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."
People
"I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive."
Reading
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry
"And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man."
Experience
"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."
Beauty
"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."
Experience
"I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity."
People
"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."
Thought
"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it."
Writing
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