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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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"I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone."
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"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
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"Empire and liberty."
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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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"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."
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"Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him."
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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."
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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 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."
People
"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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"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."
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