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"A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments."
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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
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"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity."
"Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress."
"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body."
"Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too."
"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
"God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing."
"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything."
"The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer."
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