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"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader."
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"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
People

"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
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"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
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"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
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"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
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"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
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"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
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"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."
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"Thinking is simply an orderly process of asking yourself questions."
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"Good thinking makes you more attractive to yourself and others."
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"An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks."
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"Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts."
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"If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking."
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"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"
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"But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."
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"Thinking is a personalized activity that can lead us into a state of happiness or cause us to be sad. Who we are becomes a product of how we think. What we think about and how we integrate knowledge into a comprehensive schema regulates our evolving self-identity. The precision of the human mind and the interplay between cognitive thinking and reactive emotions plays a central role in self-identity."
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"Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues."
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"Mechanistic thinking focuses on "what, and holistic thinking digs into "why."
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