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"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
People

"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
Reality

"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
Space

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
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"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
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"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
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"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
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"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
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"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
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"See money " currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully."
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"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."
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"Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash."
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"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
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"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
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