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"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
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"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
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"I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum."
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"God had said to listen to what five people tell you and don't hold on to your own opinion. The person who holds on to his opinion is isolated. If you insist upon it, it will harm you as well as others. This true-false is a relative truth; it is a mundane [worldly] truth. One should not insist upon it."
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"It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it."
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"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
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"My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too."
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"
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"If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks."
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"The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which any answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it."
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"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
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"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."
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"What one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
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"Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith."
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"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."
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