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"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."
"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"
"Employment should not be your permanent assignment."
"Employment will fail you someday."
"What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose."
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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