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"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."
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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."
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"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"
Life
"I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation."
Life
"When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery."
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"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
Society
"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."
People
"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
Time
"I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood."
Work
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
Work
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
Society
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
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