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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"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."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"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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"Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there."

"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."

"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."

"When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery."

"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."

"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
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