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"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself."
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"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"
"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."
"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."
"As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall."
"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."
"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."
"The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging."
"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."
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