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"Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."

"London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other."

"To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language."

"Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world."

"Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't."
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