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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,
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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the…
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As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy.…
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Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that…
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Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical…
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We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates. Â I realize this is an assumption, but it is…
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I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented…
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Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty…
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Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to…
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