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"I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies."
Movies
"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
Home
"I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money."
Money
"My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head."
People
"Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one."
Life
"Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff."
Work
"I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him."
Being
"I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight."
Identity
"I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male."
Friendship
"I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here."
Friendship
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