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"When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear."
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"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."

"Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them."

"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."

"The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are."

"Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live."

"Be true to yourself to reveal your own unique beauties, feelings, and perceptions."

"Create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside."

"There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing."
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"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."

"That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."

"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."
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