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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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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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"The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it."
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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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"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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"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
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"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave."
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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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"Empire and liberty."
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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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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"
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"There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off."
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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."
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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."
People
"There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody."
Self
"That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program."
Commitment
"Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community."
Work
"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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"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."
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"But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors."
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