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• People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.
• A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him.
• Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live.…
• The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
• A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.
• The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and…
• All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge.…
• Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to…
• I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
• A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
• A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four…
• For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army…

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