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"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."
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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
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"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."
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