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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Greatest Honor Live Pretend
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

Concentrated Form Thinking Writing
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An honest man is always a child.
Always Child Honest Honest Man
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Destroy Easily Make Power
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Anything Embarked Explanation Life
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Artist Distinguishes First Great
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Honest Live Man Politician
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Book Ignore Like Offer
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Anymore Fiction Job Just
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Drink Eat Live Only
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Action Becomes Excess Finest
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Because Everywhere Extension Fear
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Ceases Exist Expression Freedom
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Based Conception Emotional Illusion
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Against Asked Bite Religion
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Becomes Equal His Made
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

About Becomes Events Extraordinary
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

Conservative Defense Freedom Frighten
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Being Central Century Condition
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.

Apartment Becomes Fate First
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Gods Only Poets Interpreters
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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Bad Bad One Become Get
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Art Constant Continue Fall
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I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

Arts Communication Four Much
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Beginning Dimensions Finishes Happen
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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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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Appear Desire Endeavor Gain
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Always Work Being Belong
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Feel Free Living Only
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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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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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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Compensation Demand Freedom Freedom Of Speech
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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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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Beat Deeper Down Integrity
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Don't forget to love yourself.
Forget Love Love Yourself To Love
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We cannot attain the sanity that we seek by being quiet or nonchalant about our state of affair.

Sanity Seek Nonchalant State
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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Common Common Denominator Denominator Equalizer
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Admit Always Fruitful Had
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Advise Comfortably Port Safe
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Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Cunning Exile Ideas Keep
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Affiliation Independent Influence Outside
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