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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

"I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it."

"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."

"There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention."

"We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
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