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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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"What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?"
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"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."
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"Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly."
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"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"
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"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."
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"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
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"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
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"Snooty knew measly talked muchly."
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"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."
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"Find a voice in a whisper."
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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
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"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."
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"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."
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"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."
Nature

"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 used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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