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"There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."
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"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."
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"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
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"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"
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"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women."
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"I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in schools, but those plucked from the human heart, the searing conditions of isolation. I did not have to be limited to my biography because of words, and I shared this with Faulkner, who invented new words and punctuation and expression and worlds. He utterly reshaped the world."
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"Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives."
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"Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?"
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"..holding a book but reading the empty spaces."
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"Love is almost never simple."
Love
"From one bell all the bells toll."
Unity
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
Language
"It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them."
Beauty
"Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace."
Philosophy
"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."
Psychology
"A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone."
Art
"Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter."
Character
"What we call life is only talk of nature."
Philosophy
"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."
Conflict
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