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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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Attempt Denial Excuse Invisibility Invisible Irresponsible Lazy Way
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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Being Yourself Ego Expectation Life Love Respect Self Self Esteem
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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Bind Imprison Political Politics Potency Power Revive
the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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Aim Concentrate Focus Ornery Plan Task Wonderful World
You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
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Experience Grandfather Mind Side Start Trying Young
The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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Discover Found Miracle Moral Possibility Shine World
In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Choice Day Desperate Live Music
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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Feeling Bad Loose Low Needs Sad Territory Unhappy Worst
I am nobody but myself.
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Motivation Myself Nobody One Liner Sefl Love Task
We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.
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Art Depend Humanity Understanding Will
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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Caring Cop Gun Poet Thought Trigger Word
The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
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Belief Light Loyal One Liner Passion Revel Truth
That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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Arrows Beautiful Exploit Explore Life Meaning Moving Things To Do
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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Emotion Fairy Stories Faith Fiction Heart Leaving Love Loyal Reality Science
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
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Enough Morning Museum Sun
And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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Fail Fear Issue Loose My Own Problem Try Way

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