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- I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all…
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such…
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write.…
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
- The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
- You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'…
- It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
- They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
- Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
- I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
- I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,…
- Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where…
- Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small…
- Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in…
- We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
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