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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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"Too many of us view liberty as something that 'just is,' and too few see it as something that 'is' only because someone, somewhere was faced with the formidable reality that to keep liberty meant paying a stiff price."
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"The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think, and our intentions govern what we think."
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"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
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"Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered."
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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"
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"Life is full of choices. Your choice is your true freedom."
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"The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer."
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"When liberty returns, I will return."
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"As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself."
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"What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?"
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"One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love."
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"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."
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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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"Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented."
Expression
"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
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"And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers."
Collaboration
"Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else."
Time
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
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"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
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"I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion."
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