"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

Habit, Being, Earth, Names

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"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

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"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."

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"I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me."

Religion

"When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away."

Creativity

"There are those of us who learn to live completely in the moment. For such people the Past vanishes and the future loses meaning. There is only the Present, which means that two of the three Aalim are surplus to requirements. And then there are those of us who are trapped in yesterdays, in the memory of a lost love, or a childhood home, or a dreadful crime. And some people live only for a better tomorrow; for them the past ceases to exist."

Time

"Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence."

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"Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths."

Emotion

"Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions."

Psychology

"Everyone had learned that it was worth giving up privacy for the merest possibility of fame, and the idea that only a private self was truly autonomous and free had be lost in the static of the airwaves."

Society

"Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive."

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"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."

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"I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to express what is inexpressible, our dreams of otherness, of more."

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