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• Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
• A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
• If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
• Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
• A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
• Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
• If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
• My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
• Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
• When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
• It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
• Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…

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