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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
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"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
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"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."
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"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
Man
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
Faith
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
Happiness
"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."
Family
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
Art
"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
Love
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
Life
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
Music
"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
Existence
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