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• We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…
• Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned…
• I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.
• I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing…
• If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath…
• The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying…
• I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me…
• The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.
• Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like…
• The writer's job is to get naked...
• Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.
• What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

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