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"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
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"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."

"There must be instinct on d inside to have an increase on d outside."

"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."

"He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is."

"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."

"I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here."
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"The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought."


"For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious."


"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries."


"There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect."
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