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"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

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"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."

"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."

"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."

"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert."

"I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame."

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today."
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