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"Hardship makes the world obscure."
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"Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord."
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"Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people."
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"Hardship makes the world obscure."
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"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."
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"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
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"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
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"Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or-and the outward semblance is the same-crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more."
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"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
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"However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist."
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"Where there is less pain, there is also less pay."
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"I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs."
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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?"
Life
"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
Journalism
"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
Movies
"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
"America was and is the immigrant's dream."
Dream
"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've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
Work
"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
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