"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

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"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."

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"Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it."

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"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."

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"If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything."

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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

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"What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?"

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"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead."

Literature

"The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me."

Relationship

"Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older."

Identity

"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."

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