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"All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others."
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"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."
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"Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be."
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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."
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"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."
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"So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington."
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"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension."
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"Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control."
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"The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice."
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"Usury once in control will wreck the nation."
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"This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money."
Money
"I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth."
People
"Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing."
Writing
"I love comic books and always did as a kid."
Love
"My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style."
Style
"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."
Personality
"Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that."
Life
"I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out."
Literature
"Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like."
Work
"When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring."
Control
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