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"To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create."
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"The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation."

"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."

"That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying."

"Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century."

"To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether."
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"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"

"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."

"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."

"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."
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