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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."

"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."

"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."

"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."
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