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"If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate."
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"The world will lose something if you do not find yourself, if you do not answer the question "Who am I."
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"Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery."
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"Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!"
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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
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"You can't hide from wisdom, it's everywhere; you won't find it in everyone, it's too rare."
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"A lot of time should be spent on finding your purpose."
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"Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners."
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"Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed."
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"That person in the mirror is just the outside, your earth suit; the real you resides on the inside."
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"When someone is seeking, said Siddartha, "It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose."
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"As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge."
Knowledge
"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory."
Heart
"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."
Religion
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry
"I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity."
People
"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."
Experience
"Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature."
Nature
"It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject."
Will
"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it."
Family
"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."
Writing
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