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"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."

"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."

"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer."

"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright."

"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."
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"Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them."


"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."


"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."


"But above and beyond there's still one name left over,And that is the name that you never will guess;The name that no human research can discover--But the cat himself knows, and will never confess.When you notice a cat in profound meditation,The reason, I tell you, is always the same:His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplationOf the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:His ineffable effableEffanineffableDeep and inscrutable singular Name."


"There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."


"Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
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