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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

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When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.
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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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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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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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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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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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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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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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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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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.
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