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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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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 world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.
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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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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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Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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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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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
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I blundered into writing.
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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
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My hole is warm and full of light.
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