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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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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
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"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible."
Media

"And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool."
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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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"We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things."
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"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."
Energy

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."
Fiction

"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."
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"I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used."
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"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."
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