"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."

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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."

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"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater."

First

"See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome."

Man

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."

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"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."

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"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."

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"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."

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"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."

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"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."

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