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• Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could…
• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
• The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
• Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
• There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened…
• The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly…
• Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
• All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred…

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