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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified."

"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
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"There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat."

"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."

"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
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