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"That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease."
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"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
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"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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"Some call their mistake a discovery;to others, their mistake is a misfortune and to most people a mistake is a deviation from the acceptable. A mistake is a mistake depending on what we think it is."
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"Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good."
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"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."
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"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."
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"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."
Literature
"That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease."
Perception
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
Work
"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is-an intense form of thought."
Creativity
"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
Society
"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."
Mortality
"Hardship makes the world obscure."
Hardship
"How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature."
Literature
"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
Communication
"We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures."
Observation
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