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"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."
Truth
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
Society
"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic."
Technology
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
Work
"May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan."
Action
"I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version."
Future
"People will always make comparisons."
People
"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
Nature
"When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery."
Writing
"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
Society
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