I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.
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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
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One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
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In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
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