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"I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language."
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"Life is too big for small dreams."
"Life is miraculous and love is the miracle."
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"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!"
"Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away."
"Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one else has taken...yet."
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"Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain."
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"It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know."
"If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely."
"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
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