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"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."
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"Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"
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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."
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"Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it."
Writing
"Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need."
Society
"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."
Freedom
"I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin for quite a while, and I have had this strong feeling about it for many years."
Time
"When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer."
Society
"The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer."
Work
"I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute."
Law
"Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is."
World
"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."
Money
"Fiction is socially meaningful."
Fiction
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