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• We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
• I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was…
• The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
• There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
• Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
• All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
• Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully…

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