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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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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

"The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask."

"Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer."And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?"

"Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God."

"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."

"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."
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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

"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 do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
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