I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

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