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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"
"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."
"To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!"
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"What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power."
"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
"People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy."
"The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable."
"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."
"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."
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