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If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn’t care as long as they sang without dissonance.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn’t that what we’re all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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And I knew that it was better to live out one’s absurdity than to die for that of others.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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Everywhere I’ve turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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