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"As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."
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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."
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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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"The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role."
Creativity
"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"
Smart
"As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day."
People
"Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals."
Change
"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart."
Emotional
"The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint."
Life
"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life."
Life
"My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms."
Time
"The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness."
Consciousness
"I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction."
Fiction
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