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"You can't give what you don't have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well."

"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."


"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."


"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."


"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."


"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."


"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"


"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
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