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"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."
"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."
"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."
"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
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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 am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
"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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."
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