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"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."
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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage."
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"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."
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"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week."
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"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere."
Beauty

"I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it."
Writing

"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

"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction."
Life

"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."
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"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism."
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"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."
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