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"Hardship makes the world obscure."
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"The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three."
"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
"About a month after she found out about that, I got pregnant for the first time. I knew I didn't want to have a baby at all, and wanted to get an abortion. But the day I found out, I wasn't sure what to do first. I felt alone and lost and needed someone to call who I could tell. I needed help. I wasn't sure if she would talk to me again so soon after what had happened. I decided to take a chance and try calling her. When I told her, she said, 'Well, an abortion is only like $500, so go turn a couple of tricks and get it taken care of,' before she hung up on me. I probably should have called someone else, but I didn't know who else to call."
"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."
"Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life."
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"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"
"When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery."
"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."
"I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood."
"I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore."
"The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence."
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
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