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

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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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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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In order to travel far you have to be detached.
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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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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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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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I blundered into writing.
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And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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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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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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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.
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God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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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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