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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Abstract Been European Expressionism
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

About Always Because Books
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Catholic Childhood Last Sense
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Armed Combat Decide Engage
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

About Around Each How
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Friends Had Health High
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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Act Consumption Deeply Endless
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In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
Becomes Everything Face Little
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Came Horrible Never Rejected
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accident Americana Culture Declaration
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Breathless Haste Hurry Men
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Dare Footing Lose Oneself
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Arrangements Largely Maintaining Make
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Books Language Man Shaped
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The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Life Meaning Measure Modern
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Force Live Moral Out
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

Belittle Created Mystery Something
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

America Book Come Europe
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Cannot Immediately Necessary Patience
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Cannot Chess Feel Game
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Begins Birth Could Cry
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Absurd Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Animal Birds Breeds Commonly
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Once you label me you negate me.

Label Me Once You
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Begin Bore Bores Contradict
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Before Dad Dream His
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I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Best Come Conversations Cruel
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

About Complaint Even Me
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Being Come Every Faith
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Becomes Divine Forget Greater
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Accompanied Death Die Enjoyment
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If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Actually Gain Huge I Can
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

As Far As Caught Else Everyone
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I don't care if all girls are after money, God please don't let me meet one that will be after my life.

Money Girls Life Meet
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I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is

Been Call Fortunate Friend
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I know money is evil but that doesn't mean being broke is holy.
Know Money Evil Holy
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You have been praying for your leaders and their families, it's time you pray for yourself and your family; you too deserve to live.

Praying Leaders Families Pray
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We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.

We Came Into Broken
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For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

For Me Money Not
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Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Blacks Especially America Have
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If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

If You Have Opportunity
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

They Say Can Rap
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.

This Dark Diction Has
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It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs

Was Strike Against That
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Bunch Crying Executives Front
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Micheal Jordan Basketball Power
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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Why Someone Good One
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I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

Don't Even Listen Rap
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Sometimes People Write Novels
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