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"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
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"One must steer, not talk."
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid."
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"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."
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"Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me."
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"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
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"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."
Work
"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
"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."
Religion
"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week."
Work
"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
"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
Talk
"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
"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
"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."
Life
"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
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