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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

Car Even God Horse
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

Invasion Marvelous Peace Peaceful
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
I Love I Write Just Like
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

Again Book Frozen Moment
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

Act Been Closet Coat
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.

Intend Like Myself Necessarily
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Aloof Doing Kind Known
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Always Emotions Personally Poets
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Always Anyone Deeply Feel
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Casting Certain Characters Doubts
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Else Fool No One Prerogative
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We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
Bearable Could Everything Just
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Because Comics Easy Election
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Also, I've already won all the awards.

Also Already Awards Won
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As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

As Far As Becoming Concerned Entire
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Always Awards Battle Between
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I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Am Does Flaws Get
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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

About Book Breaking Classical
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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

About Maybe Started Writing
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I think of myself as a very lazy author.
Author I Think Lazy Myself
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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Began Comedy Did Feel
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Always Anyone Anything Publish
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Because Book Create Different
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I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Fairly Book Undisciplined Writer
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Been Book Contract First
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Because Fans Get Nice
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Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
Better Much Rock Roll
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Amendment Amendment Rights Book Comic
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Amendment Countries Current First
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Always Before Brighter Just
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Being Between Bored Daydreaming
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I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

Always Last Look Lost
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Adam Apple Eating Got
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Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
Bonus Chemical Dogs Eat
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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Area Children Drop Go
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Adventures Ashes Be True Dust
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Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas

Helplessness Prayer Calls Heart
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Always Been Children Clothes
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Been Chest Ever Get
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Build Dance Draw Else
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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Any Best Honestly Matter
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I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
About Fiction More Much
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Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

Die Generation Kind Length
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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
Art Art Form Deserve Form
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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Action Develop Goals Life
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

Antiques Dear Friends Most
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