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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself."
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"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."
"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
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"For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China."
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"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history."
"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."
"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
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