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"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."
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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."
"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."
"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."
"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."
"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."
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