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Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the…
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It will be fun to give some to prostitutes,
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I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job.…
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Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.
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Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?
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I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and…
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If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a…
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So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still…
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I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.…
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Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.
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Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue…
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Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue…
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
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When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins…
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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and…
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He…
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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything…
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Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be…
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