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"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."
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"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
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"Freedom is a subset of survival."
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"The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it."
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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"
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"He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth."
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"Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop."
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"Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces."
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"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave."
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"Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded, it is a liberty available to anyone."
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"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
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"Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again."
Writing
"I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into."
Work
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
Work
"I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him."
Love
"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."
Change
"Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions."
People
"You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels."
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"I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels."
Poetry
"When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else."
Writing
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
Self
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