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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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"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
"People get bitten. But I won't.' I found myself saying, 'You will, you will. These snakes don't know you find death inconceivable. They don't know you're young and strong and you think death applies to everyone but you. They will bite you and you will die."
"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."
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"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."
"Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip."
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