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““A person has to have a reason for living, and the best reason is another person. Together they can make a plan for their lives.””

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“I cannot pray. I talk to God through my sculpture and painting.' 'That's also prayer.' He smiled faintly, the morning sun on his face.…

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I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human…

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“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head.…

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“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in…

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Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not…

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“Basically it’s none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we’re on the trail of the…

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“I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.”

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What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and…

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“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.”

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“When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.”

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The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

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