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"I am not the river I am the net."

"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

"Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one."

"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"

"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."

"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"
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"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."

"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."

"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."

"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."

"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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